US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on March 24 for "System and method for magnetic resonance imaging with variable echo time" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,982, issued on March 24, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for magnetic resonance imaging with variable echo time" was invented by Florian Wiesinger (Freising, Germany) and Michael Carl (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for imaging a subject using an MRI system includes determining a plurality of echo times and then acquiring a plurality of variable echo time signals corresponding to the plurality of echo times at a plurality of k-space locations. In the method, a water k-space data signal and a fat k-space data signal is generated for each of the plurality of k...