US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on April 8 for "System and method for low-dose multi-phasic computed tomography imaging of the kidneys" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,543, issued on April 8, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for low-dose multi-phasic computed tomography imaging of the kidneys" was invented by Andrew Wentland (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating multi-phase kidney computed tomography (CT) images of a patient are provided. The method includes acquiring or accessing CT data that includes a first dataset acquired from the patient during a first phase when a dose of a contrast agent is being excreted from a kidney of the patient and does not include a second dataset acquired from the patien...