18725832. ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT USING MRI (KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.)
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ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT USING MRI
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Inventor(s)
Laura Klaming of Amsterdam (NL)
Evelijne Machteld Hart De Ruijter-bekker of Waalre (NL)
Raymond Van Ee of Geldrop (NL)
Maria Estrella Mena Benito of Brabant (NL)
Marieke Van Dooren of Arendonk (BE)
ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT USING MRI
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18725832 titled 'ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT USING MRI
Original Abstract Submitted
A method and apparatus for use as part of diagnostic analysis of the psychiatric or neurological health of a patient based on use of a normative database of fMRI data results and cognitive task results for a population of prior patients. Embodiments propose to acquire fMRI data of a particular set of one or more regions of the brain of a patient while the patient is performing a cognitive task, and to record at the same time results of the patient's performance in the cognitive task. A combination of both the cognitive task results and the fMRI data for the brain regions is used to provide an indicator as to a cognitive health status of the patient. More particularly, a normative database of fMRI data results and cognitive task results for a population of patients is used as a reference. This may store results both for healthy patients and pathological patients, to provide a normal and abnormal reference.
