US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers, Henan Provincial People's Hospital on April 7 for "Method and apparatus for measuring brain free water content and MRI system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,999, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Ltd. (Shanghai) and Henan Provincial People's Hospital (Zhengzhou, China).

"Method and apparatus for measuring brain free water content and MRI system" was invented by Mei Yun Wang (Zhengzhou, China), Xian Chang Zhang (Beijing), Yan Bai (Zhengzhou, China), Rui Zhang (Zhengzhou, China) and Ru Shi Chen (Zhengzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for measuring brain free water content, in response to an RF excitation field generated on the basis of a magnetic resonance fingerprinting sequence and applied to the brain, an equilibrium magnetization mixed term (M...