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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2010
Kristin R. Swanson, Seattle, WA (US);
James D. Murray, Litchfiled, CT (US);
Russell Rockne, Shoreline, WA (US);
Ellsworth C. Alvord, Iii, Seattle, WA (US);
Nancy Delaney Alvord, Seattle, WA (US);
Kristin R. Swanson, Seattle, WA (US);
Ellsworth C. Alvord, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
James D. Murray, Litchfiled, CT (US);
Russell Rockne, Shoreline, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to determining the spatial extent, aggressiveness, and other characteristics of various types of tumors, including glioma tumors that occur in brain tissue. Various embodiments of the present invention use parameterized computational models to characterize tumor growth and employ medical imaging technologies to generate images and other types of data from which values of parameters of the computational models are derived. Having obtained the parameters for a particular tumor, the extent of the tumor is estimated, with high accuracy, and other characteristics of the tumor are derived from the parameterized computational models.