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Mapping of vascular perfusion territories

US8195274B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 28, 2008
Grant dateJun 5, 2012
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Expiry dateMar 7, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01R33/56333
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Techniques, systems and computer program products are disclosed for mapping of vascular perfusion territories by placing one or more blood vessels of the vascular perfusion territories in a tag condition and others in a control condition by applying a train of pseudo-continuous radio frequency tagging pulses. In addition, an encoding scheme is applied to fully invert or relax the blood vessels of the vascular perfusion territories. Also, a tagging efficiency is measured for each blood vessel based on the applied encoding scheme. Further, the vascular perfusion territories are separated by using the measured tagging efficiency in a decoding process.

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