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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2018
Applicants:
Jay S. Schildkraut, Rochester, NY (US);
Subramanyan Krishnamoorthy, Palatine, IL (US);
Jean-marc Inglese, Bussy-Saint-Georges, FR;
Inventors:
Jay S. Schildkraut, Rochester, NY (US);
Subramanyan Krishnamoorthy, Palatine, IL (US);
Jean-Marc Inglese, Bussy-Saint-Georges, FR;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/14 (2006.01); A61B 6/02 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/14 (2013.01); A61B 6/025 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/4085 (2013.01); A61B 6/4241 (2013.01); A61B 6/461 (2013.01); A61B 6/505 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for characterizing bone structure for a patient, method executed at least in part on a computer, acquires one or more 2D x-ray projection images of a volume, wherein image content is acquired at two or more spectral frequencies. The acquired x-ray image content is processed to calculate one or more metrics that characterize bone structure within the imaged volume. The one or more calculated metrics are displayed.