Patent ID: 9465090
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: A61B,G01R

Claim Text:
1. A method of acquiring temperature measurements from inside an anatomical object during a medical procedure using magnetic resonance (MR) elastography, comprising: (a) segmenting an image of the anatomical object to define a region for each different tissue type comprising the anatomical object; (b) obtaining a measurement of viscosity of a respective defined region of the anatomical object using the MR elastography; (c) correlating the viscosity measurement to a respective temperature of the anatomical object utilizing a respective model of viscosity at different temperatures for the respective defined region; (d) obtaining a temperature measurement in real-time from the correlation of the viscosity measurement to the respective temperature to generate a temperature mapping of the anatomical object; and (e) generating and displaying a visualization of the temperature mapping to determine temperature changes for the medical procedure, and wherein steps (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are performed by a computer.