US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on April 8 for "System and method for assessment of neuro-inflammation using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,466, issued on April 8, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for assessment of neuro-inflammation using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)" was invented by John-Paul Jaewoon Yu (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for non-invasively assessing neuro-inflammation in a subject. The method includes acquiring neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) data of the subject and processing the NODDI data to determine an orientation dispersion index (ODI) component of the NODDI data. The method also includes assessing the ODI component a...