PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939643
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["324", "309000"]

Abstract:
In a magnetic resonance method and apparatus, deficiencies in conventional masking in quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) are addressed by the inclusion of an additional step in the conventional QSM post-processing pipeline. In this additional step, atlas-based segmentation techniques, which have been developed for morphological applications such as T1w MPRAGE are used in order to provide the mask. This mask is then fed to the remainder of the QSM post-processing pipeline.

Claim (Index 8):
An apparatus as claimed in  claim 6  wherein:\n said processor is configured to execute said masking step by accessing, as said atlas, an atlas comprising a plurality of MR image sets respectively for a plurality of subjects, wherein each of said MR image sets comprises respective MR images of a respective subject reconstructed from MR data acquired from the respective subject during a plurality of echoes in a gradient echo MR data acquisition sequence; \n said processor is configured to execute said masking step by combining the respective MR image for each respective echo in the plurality of MR image data sets in order to form a normative representation of all of said subjects for each echo; and \n said processor is configured to execute said masking step by combining the respective normative representations of all subjects for each echo dependent on the echo time during which said MR data were acquired from said current subject.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41818
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15139732', '13606426', '14731767', '15299654', '15147146']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5743672866306844
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4952755471986074
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5664581126874767
- Mean Citation Score: 227.80393200000003
- Max Citation Score: 231.0959
- Similarity Product: 148.05206451011895

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test