ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,575, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Diffusion mapping by MR fingerprinting" was invented by Kay Nehrke (Ammersbek, Germany), Thomas Erik Amthor (Hamburg, Germany), Peter Ulrich Boernert (Hamburg, Germany), Mariya Ivanova Doneva (Luneburg, Germany) and Peter Koken (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) placed in an examination volume of an MR system (1). It is an object of the invention to enable quantitative diffusion MR imaging based on the generation of a temporally incoherent MR signal evolution by va...