US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Dec. 16 for "Image intensity correction in magnetic resonance imaging" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,516, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Image intensity correction in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Johannes Martinus Peeters (Nuenen, Netherlands), Shuo Zhang (Goettingen, Germany) and Guillaume Rudolf Petrus Thelissen (Best, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120) and an image segmentation algorithm (122). The image segmentation algorithm is configured for outputting one or more predetermined anatomical regions within initial magnetic resonance i...