ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,438, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"MR mammography" was invented by Gabrielle Beck (Venlo, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object, namely of at least a part of the female breast. The method of the invention comprises the steps of: a) subjecting the object (10) to an imaging sequence comprising RF excitation pulses and switched magnetic field gradients, wherein multiple echo signals are generated at different echo times (TE1, TE2, TE3) after each RF excitation pulse, b) acquiring the echo signals along a set of radi...