Patents by Inventor Guofan Xu

Guofan Xu 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).

  • MRI method for producing an index indicative of brain disorders
    Patent number: 7577472
    Abstract: Time course MRI data is acquired from the hippocampal region of the brain and processed to produce two indices that are a measure of the functional connectivity between locations therein. The MRI data is acquired while the brain is substantially at rest and the spontaneous low frequency component of the time course data at each location in the hippocampus is extracted and compared in a cross-correlation process. Also acquired is fMRI data which indicates those locations in the brain that should be included in the index calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: The MCW Research Foundation Inc.
    Inventors: Shi-Jiang Li, Yin Xu, Guofan Xu, Gaohong Wu
  • MRI method for producing an index indicative of brain disorders
    Publication number: 20060241382
    Abstract: Time course MRI data is acquired from the hippocampal region of the brain and processed to produce two indices that are a measure of the functional connectivity between locations therein. The MRI data is acquired while the brain is substantially at rest and the spontaneous low frequency component of the time course data at each location in the hippocampus is extracted and compared in a cross-correlation process. Also acquired is fMRI data which indicates those locations in the brain that should be included in the index calculations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Shi-Jiang Li, Yin Xu, Guofan Xu, Gaohong Wu