US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Jan. 27 for "System and method for proton and phosphorus magnetic resonance imaging" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,543, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"System and method for proton and phosphorus magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by John D. Port (Rochester, Minn.), Joel P. Felmlee (Rochester, Minn.), Yunhong Shu (Rochester, Minn.), Joshua D. Trzasko (Rochester, Minn.) and Aiming Lu (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure addresses the challenges of in vivo phosphorus imaging by providing a clinically useful phosphorus MRI (PMRI) system and method that may be performed on a standard MRI system in a clinically reasonable scan time using...