US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on March 3 for "Magnetic resonance imaging system and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,232, issued on March 3, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Magnetic resonance imaging system and method" was invented by Lei Gao (Beijing) and Yongchuan Lai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging system and method is provided. The magnetic resonance imaging method comprises: in a single signal acquisition, applying a plurality of diffusion-weighted imaging sequences in a plurality of diffusion directions, respectively, to acquire a plurality of k-space data sets. Each diffusion-weighted imaging sequence comprising a pre-dephasing gradient pulse and a plurality of phase encodin...