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 7):
An apparatus as claimed in  claim 6  wherein said computer is configured to operate said MR data acquisition scanner in order to acquire said MR data from the brain of the current subject, and said processor is configured to execute said masking step to generate skull stripped data as said mask.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41818
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15139732', '13606426', '14731767', '15299654', '15147146']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6027957701019715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991145820807904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5924276512998534
- Mean Citation Score: 227.80393200000003
- Max Citation Score: 231.0959
- Similarity Product: 144.79626727299691

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test