US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on May 12 for "Systems and methods for radio frequency (RF) based spatial encoding in magnetic resonance imaging using frequency-modulated RF pulses" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,209, issued on May 12, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Systems and methods for radio frequency (RF) based spatial encoding in magnetic resonance imaging using frequency-modulated RF pulses" was invented by Michael Garwood (Minneapolis), Efrain Torres (Minneapolis) and Taylor Froelich (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radio frequency ("RF") gradient based magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI") is provided by establishing a gradient in the RF transmit (B1) field using frequency-modulated RF pulses. A difference between the time-bandwidth product of the frequency-modulated RF pulses can be var...