US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers, The General Hospital on July 14 for "Method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image dataset" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,466, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image dataset" was invented by Daniel Polak (Erlangen, Germany), Stephen Farman Cauley (Winchester, Mass.) and Lawrence L. Wald (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image dataset of a subject is disclosed, wherein k-space is sampled during the acquisition in a plurality of k-space lines having different positions in the phase encoding direction. The method includes: sampling a first part of k-space by acquiring a...