US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 11 for "Magnetic resonance simulation apparatus, magnetic resonance simulation method, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,574, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance simulation apparatus, magnetic resonance simulation method, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Hidenori Takeshima (Taito, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance (MR) simulation apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry updates and obtains, for each of voxels, an electron-spin density matrix based on a pulse sequence for acquisition of MR signals. For each of the voxels, the processing circuitry computes, during an acquisition period for the MR signals in the pulse...