Patents by Inventor Shihoko Kimura-Ohba

Shihoko Kimura-Ohba 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).

  • Fractional anisotropy in MRI as an indicator of reversible pathology
    Patent number: 10827946
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for determining whether brain regions of interest having reversible or irreversible pathology. The method includes acquiring over a predetermined period of time a plurality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images for each brain region of interest; analyzing the MRI images to obtain quantitative measurements of the fractional anisotropy (FA) for each brain region of interest and determining that brain regions of interest have reversible pathology when the measured FA increases and then decreases over the predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: UNM Rainforest Innovations
    Inventors: Shihoko Kimura-Ohba, Laurel Sillerud
  • Fractional Anisotropy in MRI as an Indicator of Reversible Pathology
    Publication number: 20180249926
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for determining whether brain regions of interest having reversible or irreversible pathology. The method includes acquiring over a predetermined period of time a plurality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images for each brain region of interest; analyzing the MRI images to obtain quantitative measurements of the fractional anisotropy (FA) for each brain region of interest and determining that brain regions of interest have reversible pathology when the measured FA increases and then decreases over the predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: STC.UNM
    Inventors: Shihoko Kimura-Ohba, Laurel Sillerud