US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 15 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method of determining sampling pattern" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,601, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method of determining sampling pattern" was invented by Tomoki Amemiya (Tokyo), Atsuro Suzuki (Tokyo), Yukio Kaneko (Tokyo), Suguru Yokosawa (Tokyo), Toru Shirai (Tokyo) and Hiroki Shoji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MRI apparatus includes a measurement point determination unit that determines each measurement point of three-dimensional k-space data. In a case where a kx direction of a three-dimensional k-space is set as a readout direction, for a plurality of measurement points on a ky-kz plane, the measurement poin...