US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers, Balgrist Campus on April 7 for "Method and system for improving image contrast in fast driven equilibrium inversion recovery imaging" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,164, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and Balgrist Campus AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method and system for improving image contrast in fast driven equilibrium inversion recovery imaging" was invented by Constantin von Deuster (Zurich, Switzerland) and Daniel Nanz (Hombrechtikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system improve an MRI signal from a magnetization of interest. The method includes performing an MRI pulse sequence containing three consecutive radio frequency (RF) elements, namely, a first element that is an inversion-re...