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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2021
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Farouc Amin Jaffer, Boston, MA (US);
Guillermo Tearney, Boston, MA (US);
Joseph Gardecki, Boston, MA (US);
Mazen Albaghdadi, Boston, MA (US);
Ryutaro Ikegami, Boston, MA (US);
Mohamad Kassab, Boston, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for diagnosing a medical condition of a patient is provided. The method can include causing, using one or more processors, an excitation source to emit an excitation light towards a region of interest of an artery, receiving, using the one or more processors and a detector, imaging data of the region of interest of the artery, generating, using the one or more processors and the imaging data, an image of the region of interest, determining, using the one or more processors, a risk region of an atheromatous plaque, based on the imaging data, and determining, using the one or more processors, that the patient has a severe case of an atheromatous plaque, based on the determined risk region of the atheromatous plaque.