ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,748, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image reconstruction method" was invented by Toru Shirai (Chiba, Japan), Yukio Kaneko (Chiba, Japan) and Yosuke Otake (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a weighted reconstruction technique of a channel for suppressing a blood flow artifact and a body movement artifact in imaging using a multi-channel reception coil. In a case of reconstructing an image of a subject by using a nuclear magnetic resonance signal collected by each of a plurality of channels of a reception coil, by using a positioning image, an o...