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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Cedars-sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rohan Dharmakumar, Moorpark, CA (US);
Hsin-Jung Yang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/50 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); A61B 5/145 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0044 (2013.01); A61B 5/02007 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/7207 (2013.01); A61B 6/03 (2013.01); A61B 6/503 (2013.01); G01R 33/481 (2013.01); G01R 33/50 (2013.01); G01R 33/5601 (2013.01); A61B 5/14542 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention provides various methods for imaging a subject's cardiovascular system. The imaging method may be used to provide a diagnosis or prognosis of various cardiovascular diseases in the subject, without contrast agents or radioactive tracers, and further generating a Gaussian Mixture Model to obtain a reference value of a normal myocardium.