US Patent Issued to Endeavor Health Clinical Operations on July 28 for "System and method for T 1 relaxation enhanced steady-state MRI" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,362, issued on July 28, was assigned to Endeavor Health Clinical Operations (Evanston, Ill.).

"System and method for T 1 relaxation enhanced steady-state MRI" was invented by Robert R. Edelman (Highland Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for equilibrium phase contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) angiography using an extracellular MR contrast agent administered to a subject includes performing a balanced T1 relaxation enhanced steady-state (bT1RESS) pulse sequence to acquire MR data from a region of interest of the subject during an equilibrium phase of contrast enhancement after a first pass of the extracellular ...