US Patent Issued to University of Cincinnati on July 22 for "Ablation monitoring and control using three-dimensional echo decorrelation imaging" (Ohio, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,462, issued on July 22, was assigned to University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati).

"Ablation monitoring and control using three-dimensional echo decorrelation imaging" was invented by T. Douglas Mast (Cincinnati), Peter D. Grimm (Cincinnati) and Elmira Ghahramani Zarajabad (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products for monitoring and control of tissue ablation using three-dimensional echo decorrelation imaging. A first plurality of pulse-echo image volumes each including a region of interest are received from an ultrasound scanner. One or more pulse-echo image volume pairs are defined from th...