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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2023
The Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (US);
Kenneth M. Tichauer, Chicago, IL (US);
Scott C. Davis, Woodville, NH (US);
Brian William Pogue, Hanover, NH (US);
The Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for medical imaging uses a first and second contrast agent, the second agent targeted to a particular tissue type. First images are obtained using the first agent, and second images using the second agent using medical imaging systems. An image processing system is adapted to process the first and second medical images by fitting parameters of a pharmacokinetic model to the first medical images, identifying a nontargeted tissue type, scaling the fitted parameters to best match the nontargeted tissue in the second medical images, executing the pharmacokinetic model to prepare a correction image, and generating corrected medical images by subtracting the correction image from the second medical images.