US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 3 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method of supporting setting of imaging condition thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,231, issued on March 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method of supporting setting of imaging condition thereof" was invented by Toru Shirai (Chiba, Japan), Yukio Kaneko (Chiba, Japan), Yosuke Otake (Chiba, Japan) and Suguru Yokosawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an MRI apparatus that supports re-setting of an imaging condition for preventing occurrence of aliasing in a phase encoding direction. A region in which an aliasing signal causing aliasing occurs is estimated by using a FOV set at the beginning and a positioning image, a range of the FOV to be cha...