US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 17 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and control method of the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,974, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and control method of the same" was invented by Kosuke Ito (Chiba, Japan), Kazuho Kamba (Chiba, Japan) and Atsushi Kuratani (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In MRI using an SE-based pulse sequence, an object is to suppress flow artifacts and acquire a flow artifact-free image regardless a velocity or a direction of blood flow. A pair of gradient magnetic field pulses are applied before and after a 180-degree pulse of the SE-based pulse sequence, and a plurality of times of imaging are performed using varying intensities o...