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 4):
A method as claimed in  claim 3  comprising combining the respective normative representations of all subjects for each echo dependent on said echo during which said MR data were acquired from said current subject by identifying two echo times among said normative representations that are adjacent to the echo time for said current subject, and forming a weighted average of said two adjacent echo times.

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): 0.5747658855536119
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4935390897735978
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5666432059756105
- Mean Citation Score: 227.80393200000003
- Max Citation Score: 231.0959
- Similarity Product: 151.7206526376486

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