Patents by Inventor Jack DeFranco

Jack DeFranco 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).

  • Method of improving fat saturation during MRI
    Patent number: 5414358
    Abstract: A method for improving fat saturation during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by placing a fat saturation enhancing material such as a fluorocarbon, preferably perfluorooctylbromide, perfluorodecylbromide, FC-77, or FC-43, on or around a part of the body of a patient to be scanned with MRI, thereby eliminating the skin-air interface and reducing anatomical imaging problems, wherein the placement of the fat saturation enhancing material may be accomplished by enclosing the fat saturation enhancing material in a container which may also contain the MRI coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp.
    Inventors: Steven S. Eilenberg, Jack DeFranco, Mark Walters, W. Dean Kirkland