Patents by Inventor Gregory Albers

Gregory Albers 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).

  • Automated detection of arterial input function and/or venous output function voxels in medical imaging
    Patent number: 8837800
    Abstract: Automated AIF/VOF identification is useful in connection with providing rapid and automatic quantitative imaging results. Examples include CBF (cerebral blood flow) and CBV (cerebral blood volume) perfusion maps. In the present work, AIF/VOF regions of images are identified by making use of a predefined anatomic vasculature template to provide numerical weighting values for voxels. A score is computed for each voxel that includes normalized signal fit parameters and the numerical weighting. AIF/VOF voxels are identified as N voxels having the highest score, where N can depend on the image resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Roland Bammer, Matus Straka, Gregory Albers