US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center on July 14 for "Dynamic distortion correction for MRI" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,116, issued on July 14, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Dynamic distortion correction for MRI" was invented by Tess E. Wallace (Boston), Simon K. Warfield (Boston) and Onur Afacan (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various embodiments of techniques for controlling creation of a magnetic resonance (MR) image from a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of a subject using an MRI scanner, through real-time, dynamic control of the MRI scanner during the MRI scan and/or of processing during the MRI scan of acquired MR signals as part of generating MR data for creation of the MR image. Mo...