ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,925, issued on May 5, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"MR imaging with spiral acquisition" was invented by Miha Fuderer (Bunnik, 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 (10) positioned in an examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to enable efficient spiral MR imaging without blurring artefacts, even in situations of strong B0 inhomogeneity. The method of the invention comprises the following steps: -subjecting the object (10) to an imaging sequence comprising at least one RF excitation pulse and modulated ...