US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 24 for "Subject-specific optimization of an RF pulse for exciting the spins in a slab" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,664, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Subject-specific optimization of an RF pulse for exciting the spins in a slab" was invented by Ali Aghaeifar (Tubingen, Germany), Belinda Ding Yuan (Glasgow, Great Britain), Raphael Tomi-Tricot (London), Iulius Dragonu (Harrow, Great Britain) and Radhouene Neji (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimization of an RF pulse for exciting spins in a slab in a magnetic resonance examination is provided. The RF pulse is to be played out with a coil having a plurality of independent parallel transmit elements. The method includes receivi...