US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Diffusion magnetic resonance method for measuring cardiac-cycle-dependent glymphatic system circulation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,783, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Diffusion magnetic resonance method for measuring cardiac-cycle-dependent glymphatic system circulation" was invented by Ruiliang Bai (Hangzhou, China) and Fan Jiang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a diffusion magnetic resonance (MR) method for measuring arterial pulsation dependence of perivascular cerebrospinal fluid flow in glymphatic system: DTI acquisition: Brain MRI images were acquired using dynamic diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Cardiac signal synchronization: Simultaneously collect heart rate fluctua...