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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
May. 03, 2022
Applicant:
Washington University, St. Louis, MO (US);
Inventors:
Taeho Kim, St. Louis, MO (US);
Geoffrey Hugo, St. Louis, MO (US);
Zhen Ji, St. Louis, MO (US);
Matthew Schmidt, St. Louis, MO (US);
Yu Wu, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
Washington University, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1069 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1055 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1056 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer implemented method of treatment targeting includes receiving magnetic resonance (MR) images of a subject including a target region, generating at least one contour of at least one surrogate element apart from the target region in the MR images, and determining a location of the target region in each of the MR images based on a location of the at least one contour in the MR images.