Rcadia secures four patents for coronary CT decision support

Rcadia Medical Imaging has been granted four U.S. patents for the company’s COR Analyzer System.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved the patents to protect COR Analyzer’s automated algorithmic analysis of coronary CT angiography and for the system’s detection of coronary artery pathology. In addition, the decision support system, which is aimed at emergency department triage of patients with coronary artery disease, gained coverage for its methods of results visualization and automatic assessment of study quality, Auburndale, Mass.-based Rcadia stated.

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