US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers, The General Hospital on Sept. 8 for "Dynamic low-order shimming for arterial spin labeling" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,169, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Dynamic low-order shimming for arterial spin labeling" was invented by Yulin Chang (Belmont, Mass.), Meher Juttukonda (Boston) and Jason Stockmann (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include executing a labeling phase of a pulse sequence while respective first shim currents are applied to first-order shim coils, respective second shim currents are applied to second-order shim coils, and a center frequency of an RF system is set to a first center frequency, switching, during a ...