ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,707, issued on May 19, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Florian Wiesinger (Bavaria, Germany) and Rolf Schulte (Bavaria, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for quantitative parameter estimation for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. In one example, a method includes performing a steady-state acquisition to obtain first MR signals of a scan volume, performing a transient-state acquisition to obtain second MR signals of the scan volume, determining, for each voxel of the scan volume, a respecti...