US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 5 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,926, issued on May 5, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Kazuho Kamba (Chiba, Japan), Masahiro Takizawa (Chiba, Japan), Taisei Ueda (Chiba, Japan), Nobuyuki Yoshizawa (Chiba, Japan), Atsushi Kuratani (Chiba, Japan) and Kosuke Ito (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preventing blood flow artifacts from being increased in an imaging plane allows reduction of the blood flow artifacts in the cross section subsequently excited. In the imaging using a spin-echo (SE) pulse sequence, an excitation width of a 90deg pulse is extended from an imaging p...