ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,578, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and calibration method thereof" was invented by Yasuhiro Kamada (Chiba, Japan), Kota Hamada (Chiba, Japan), Hideyuki Horio (Chiba, Japan) and Ayaka Ikegawa (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method can be provided to improve the accuracy of automatic calibration without extension of an examination time in an MR examination. A range of calibration performed before main imaging is determined with reference to a main imaging range and other spatial information. The spatial information consists of information...