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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2011
Applicants:
Andrew Blake, Stapleford, GB;
Daniel Joseph Holland, Cambridge, GB;
Lynn Faith Gladden, Landbeach, GB;
Inventors:
Andrew Blake, Stapleford, GB;
Daniel Joseph Holland, Cambridge, GB;
Lynn Faith Gladden, Landbeach, GB;
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/4509 (2013.01); A61B 2576/02 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30008 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to diagnosing and/or prescribing treatment for osteoporosis. A bone of a patient is subjected to an MRI scan, and the resultant signal is subjected to a likelihood function. The output of the likelihood function are values that are parameters that are employed to ascertain connectivity of trabeculae in the bone of the patient and volumetric trabecular density of the bone.