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- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for visualizing tissue macro- and microstructure for pathology evaluation in magnetic resonance imaging
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Application No.: US15604142Application Date: 2017-05-24
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Publication No.: US10282640B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Guillaume Bonnier , Cristina Granziera , Tobias Kober , Gunnar Krueger
- Applicant: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE AG , CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE VAUDOIS
- Applicant Address: CH Zurich CH Lausanne
- Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH,Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois
- Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH,Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois
- Current Assignee Address: CH Zurich CH Lausanne
- Agent Laurence Greenberg; Ralph Locher; Werner Stemer
- Priority: EP16171060 20160524
- Main IPC: G06K9/62
- IPC: G06K9/62 ; G06K9/52 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B5/055 ; G06K9/46 ; A61B5/107

Abstract:
A method improves a detection of a brain tissue pathology in magnetic resonance (MR) images of a patient. The method includes acquiring multiple MR imaging data for creating four different contrast maps of a patient brain. From the multiple MR imaging data, performing an estimation of gray matter (GM), white matter (WM) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentration for each voxel of a part of the patient brain. From the multiple MR imaging data, segmenting the part of the patient brain in different regions-of-interest (ROIs) according to a chosen atlas. For each voxel of each of the contrast maps of the patient brain, computing, for the part of the patient brain, a deviation score. The method further includes creating from the deviation score and for each of the quantitative contrast maps, a deviation map representing the part of the brain in dependence on the deviation score calculated for each voxel.
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