US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers, The University of Melbourne on Jan. 20 for "Asymmetric RF pulse for a magnetic resonance imaging system" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,747, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and The University of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia).

"Asymmetric RF pulse for a magnetic resonance imaging system" was invented by Jin Jin (Chapel Hill, Australia), Daniel Staeb (Port Melbourne, Australia), Didi Chi (Melbourne, Australia), Yasmin Blunck (Brunswick West, Australia) and Leigh Johnston (Brunswick West, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For constructing an asymmetric RF pulse for an MRI system, a first RF amplitude for a first part of a time interval is determined and an RF amplitude curve, which depends on at least one RF curve...