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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2017
Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Jeongchul Kim, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Youngkyoo Jung, Clemmons, NC (US);
Christopher T. Whitlow, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
Post-image acquisition methods, circuits and systems for evaluating medical images of a subject register a region of interest in a first medical image taken at a first point in time to the region of interest in a second image taken before or after the first medical image with voxels from the first and second medical images having a voxel-wise correspondence. The methods, circuits and systems can use line and/or shape changes of defined 3-D finite elements to electronically determine directional, shear and volumetric changes of the voxels in the region of interest between the first and second medical images.