ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,404, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).
"Hybrid CT-MRI system" was invented by Xun Jia (Dallas), Ge Wang (Loudonville, N.Y.), Mengzhou Li (Troy, N.Y.), Weiwen Wu (Troy, N.Y.), Wenxiang Cong (Albany, N.Y.), Yuting Peng (Dallas) and Jace Grandinetti (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic resonance (MR) subsystem for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The MR subsystem includes a first magnet-coil assembly and a second magnet-coil assembly. The first magnet-coil assembly includes a first magnet structure and a first gradient coil. The second m...