US Patent Issued to Brigham Young University (BYU) on Oct. 27 for "Multiple orthogonal slice processing and separation to obtain temperature information for MRI thermometry" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,035, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Brigham Young University (BYU) (Provo, Utah).

"Multiple orthogonal slice processing and separation to obtain temperature information for MRI thermometry" was invented by Steven Paul Allen (Springville, Utah) and Matthew David Osburn (Mapleton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes decomposing, for each of a plurality of orthogonal slices, a set of PRF baseline images for the orthogonal slice into a set of baseline image features for the orthogonal slice; acquiring, using a magnetic imaging resonance (MRI) scanner of a MRI system based on a RF excitation pulse sequence for each o...