US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Oct. 6 for "Device and method for prospective correction for gradient pulse shape distortions in MRI imaging" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,273, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Device and method for prospective correction for gradient pulse shape distortions in MRI imaging" was invented by Peter Ulrich Bornert (Hamburg, Germany) and Juergen Erwin Rahmer (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a gradient system (102, 300) for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) a solution for improving the control of gradient fields for a higher image quality shall be created. This is achieved by a gradient system (102, 300) the gradient system (102, 300) comprising: at least one gradient coil (110, 310) for generatin...