US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Sept. 30 for "System and method for diffusion group cycling" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,546, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for diffusion group cycling" was invented by Tim Sprenger (Munich), Baolian Yang (Pewaukee, Wis.), Arnaud Guidon (Boston), Gaohong Wu (New Berlin, Wis.), Suchandrima Banerjee (Berkeley, Calif.), Douglas Link (Lake Mills, Wis.) and Jaemin Shin (Haworth, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for performing magnetic resonance diffusion weighted imaging of an object includes generating, via a processor, a diffusion weighted imaging sequence where all diffusion gradients are allocated into N gr...