US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on May 12 for "Model-based reconstruction for looping-star pulse sequences in MRI" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,211, issued on May 12, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Model-based reconstruction for looping-star pulse sequences in MRI" was invented by Haowei Xiang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jeffrey Allen Fessler (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Douglas Clair Noll (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following relates generally to improved techniques for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In particular, the following relates to improving techniques of data acquisition and image reconstruction in relation to the "looping star" pulse sequence, which was developed to reduce acoustic noise. For example, techni...