US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on Sept. 1 for "Built-in coil current sensing for 1H/23NA MRI" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,094, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Built-in coil current sensing for 1H/23NA MRI" was invented by Gameel Saleh Mohammed Saleh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ashraf Abuelhaija (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a current sensing system for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner operating at 1H and 23Na resonant frequencies. The system includes a dual-tuned RF coil with a network of up to two parallel quarter-wavelength transmission lines, each integrated with a PIN diode-coupled shunt capacitor. A multiple half-wave...