Patent ID: 11892530
Assignee: TEL HASHOMER MEDICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES LTD.
Field: Pharmaceuticals (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 27:
28. Method for analyzing MRI of an organ of a subject, comprising:
operating an MRI scanner to generate a first MRI scan and a second MRI scan at the beginning and end of a predetermined time interval post contrast administration, wherein said operating comprises applying a 3D MRI pulse sequence;
forming, by an image processor, a subtraction map from said first and said second MRI scans by analyzing said scans to distinguish between two primary populations, a slow population, in which contrast clearance from the tissue is slower than contrast accumulation, and a fast population in which clearance is faster than accumulation; and
converting said scans to a displayed subtraction map on which distributions of said two primary populations are distinguished, wherein a distribution of said fast population corresponds to a tumoral tissue region and a distribution of said slow population corresponds to a non-tumoral tissue region;
wherein said predetermined time interval is at least twenty minutes.