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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
Applicant:
Stc.unm, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Inventors:
Shihoko Kimura-Ohba, Osaka, JP;
Laurel Sillerud, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Assignee:
UNM Rainforest Innovations, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G06T 7/48 (2017.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G01R 33/563 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/4094 (2013.01); A61B 5/4842 (2013.01); A61B 5/4878 (2013.01); A61B 6/03 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/48 (2017.01); A61B 2503/40 (2013.01); A61B 2503/42 (2013.01); A61B 2576/026 (2013.01); G01R 33/56341 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10092 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30016 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention concerns a method for determining whether brain regions of interest having reversible or irreversible pathology. The method includes acquiring over a predetermined period of time a plurality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images for each brain region of interest; analyzing the MRI images to obtain quantitative measurements of the fractional anisotropy (FA) for each brain region of interest and determining that brain regions of interest have reversible pathology when the measured FA increases and then decreases over the predetermined period of time.