US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on April 21 for "Method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image with an extended field of view" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,697, issued on April 21, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image with an extended field of view" was invented by Flavio Carinci (Wuerzburg, Germany) and Stefanie Splitthoff (Uttenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for magnetic resonance imaging, the method comprising: provisioning a distortion correction function for an extended field of view; provisioning an optimized position along the slice selection direction, wherein the static magnetic field has a high level of homogeneity within the slice at the optimized position in a region in the per...