US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center on Sept. 8 for "Estimating motion of a subject from slices acquired during an MRI scan" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,172, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Estimating motion of a subject from slices acquired during an MRI scan" was invented by Yao Sui (Boston), Onur Afacan (Boston), Ali Gholipour-Baboli (Boston) and Simon K. Warfield (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques to estimate motion of a subject during a magnetic resonance image (MRI) scan. The estimation may be based on one or more slices acquired during the MRI scan, permitting automated estimation of motion of the subject during the MRI scan. Some such techniques may be performed during the MRI scan, before the c...