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- Patent Title: Measuring blood vessel characteristics with MRI
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Application No.: US16002958Application Date: 2018-06-07
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Publication No.: US11241163B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Bradley P. Sutton , Alexander M. Cerjanic , Luisa Ciobanu , Denis LeBihan , Jing-Rebecca Li , Gabrielle Fournet
- Applicant: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
- Applicant Address: US IL Urbana
- Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
- Current Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Urbana
- Agency: Guntin & Gust, PLC
- Agent Matthew Tropper
- Main IPC: A61B5/055
- IPC: A61B5/055 ; G06T7/00 ; A61B5/026 ; G01R33/563 ; A61B5/00

Abstract:
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of a subject, wherein the first MRI data is obtained during a first scan of a subject, wherein the first scan has a first diffusion sampling time, and wherein the first diffusion sampling time is selected in order to facilitate use of the first MRI data to determine a first Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) effective diffusion coefficient in a Stationary Random Flow (SRF) regime; obtaining second MRI data of the subject, wherein the second MRI data is obtained during a second scan of the subject, wherein the second scan has a second diffusion sampling time, wherein the second diffusion sampling time is longer than the first diffusion sampling time, and wherein the second diffusion sampling time is selected in order to facilitate use of the second MRI data to determine a second IVIM effective diffusion coefficient in a pseudodiffusion regime; determining a blood velocity value based upon the first MRI data; and determining a segment length value based upon the second MRI data. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180353099A1 MEASURING BLOOD VESSEL CHARACTERISTICS WITH MRI Public/Granted day:2018-12-13
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