METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL-GUIDED BIOPSY

Patent №

US 5,961,457

Granted

1999-10-05

Filed 1996

Owner

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08642840

A medical method and apparatus for the localization and biospy of lesions in a patient body part. A radiopharmaceutical is administered to the patient followed by placement of the body part within a scanner for obtaining emission data. The emission data is converted into Cartesian coordinates which are used to guide a sampling instrument for the biopsy of said lesion.

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AI classification

Vision0.60
Planning0.08
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

assignment · 80570576

Assignors

RAYLMAN, RAYMOND R., WAHL, RICHARD L.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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