US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER on Jan. 13 for "Reverberant shear wave field estimation of body properties" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,014, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Reverberant shear wave field estimation of body properties" was invented by Kevin Parker (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reverberant shear wave field in an object such as a patient's body or organ causes deformations in one or more selected directions measured with an imaging modality such as ultrasound or MR equipment or other imaging equipment, to estimate displacements in one or more selected directions over time increments and then viscoelastic properties such as stiffness or other parameters of the ROI."

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