查看更多>>摘要:According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, a patent by the inventors Black, Richard J. (Menlo Park, CA, US), Costa, Joannes Mario (Rancho La Costa, CA, US), Cutkosky, Mark (Palo Alto, CA, US), Faridian, Fereydoun (Atherton, CA, US), Moslehi, Behzad (Los Altos, CA, US), Oblea, Levy (Union City, CA, US), Ryu, Seok Chang (Stanford, CA, US), Sotoudeh, Vahid (Los Altos, CA, US), filed on May 4, 2020, was published online on January 23, 2024. The assignee for this patent, patent number 11877732, is Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (Milpitas, California, United States). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “In the field of interventional radiology, procedures such as biopsies or punctures are performed in combination with an imaging device which provides guidance during the biopsy procedure to a region of interest for the tissue sample. Magnetic Resonance (MR) scanners are useful imaging devices in this context: the radiologist and the patient are not exposed to any ionizing radiation, and the images provided by MR scanners provide a high level of contrast and sufficient resolution to identify small structures such as early stage tumors.