US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on July 28 for "System and method for improved silent multi-gradient echo magnetic resonance imaging" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,360, issued on July 28, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for improved silent multi-gradient echo magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Florian Wiesinger (Freising, Germany) and Ana Beatriz Solana Sanchez (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for production of silent, multi-gradient echo, magnetic resonance images includes employing iterative application of small updates to the magnetic field gradient followed by a short, non-selective radiofrequency pulse excitation and for free indication decay data acquisition. The magnetic field gradient updates allow for s...