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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
Method to determine distribution of a material by an infused magnetic resonance image contrast agent
Applicant:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventor:
David Stiles, Danvers, MA (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61M 5/14 (2006.01); A61M 25/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/4839 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G06F 19/3437 (2013.01); G06F 19/3481 (2013.01);
Abstract
A contrast agent can be infused into a subject and a determination can be made of a VOD and/or a concentration gradient of the contrast agent in the VOD. The contrast agent can be infused in the subject using selected parameters. A correlation to a selected material can be made to determine parameters for infusion the selected material.