US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on March 17 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, phase correcting method, and imaging controlling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,756, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, phase correcting method, and imaging controlling method" was invented by Takahiro Tamura (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Bekku (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MRI apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains MR data acquired by implementing an IR method under a condition where a phase difference in a complex signal related to observed elements is equal to Pi, due to a difference in longitudinal magnetization relaxation time betwee...