US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Jan. 20 for "pH calculating apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and pH calculating method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,739, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"pH calculating apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and pH calculating method" was invented by Sotaro Taki (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pH calculating apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry that obtains a Z spectrum generated from a CEST imaging process by using, for a subject, a contrast agent containing types of substances having mutually-different responsiveness to pH during chemical shift imaging and including fall points of signal values corresponding to the types of substances; ob...