Patents by Inventor Diego R. Martin

Diego R. Martin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210124005
    Abstract: A method for producing a streak-suppressed magnetic resonance (MR) image of a subject includes generating an interference covariance matrix {circumflex over (?)}R front N coil images Ij (x,y), j={1, 2, . . . , N}, each of the N coil images Ij (x,y) corresponding to MR signals detected by a respective one of a phased array of N coils of an MRI scanner. The MR signals originate in voxels of the subject corresponding to an artifact-corrupted region of a coil image. Coordinates (x,y) correspond to a location within a cross-sectional plane of the subject. The method also includes, for subject-regions of cross-sectional plane centered at a respective location (x,y), determining a coil weight vector W (x,y) from {circumflex over (?)}R. The method also includes generating the streak-suppressed MR image as a weighted sum of the coil images Ij (x,y), each weight of the weighted sum being Wj* (x,y), a jth element of a complex conjugate of coil weight vector W (x,y).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Sagar Mandava, Maria I. Altbach, Ali Bilgin, Diego R. Martin, Mahesh Bharath Keerthivasan
  • Patent number: 8032335
    Abstract: Provided are methods, systems and computer program products evaluating magnetic resonance (MR) signals from a sample. The methods and systems can be used to evaluate MR signals from various constituents (e.g., metabolites, macromolecules) of the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Emory University
    Inventors: Diego R. Martin, Xiaoping Hu, Nashiely Pineda-Alonso, Puneet Sharma
  • Publication number: 20090276187
    Abstract: Provided are methods, systems and computer program products evaluating magnetic resonance (MR) signals from a sample. The methods and systems can be used to evaluate MR signals from various constituents (e.g., metabolites, macromolecules) of the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: EMORY UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Diego R. Martin, Xiaoping Hu, Nashiely Pineda-Alonso, Puneet Sharma