US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on July 14 for "Optimizing a pulse sequence using an optimization map" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,115, issued on July 14, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Optimizing a pulse sequence using an optimization map" was invented by Jurgen Herrler (Erlangen, Germany) and Patrick Liebig (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing a pulse sequence includes acquiring a B0 map. A B1 map is acquired for each of at least one transmission channel of a magnetic resonance apparatus. Based on the acquired B0 map and at least one B1 map, a preliminary dynamic pulse is established. For each of the at least one transmission channel, the preliminary dynamic pulse includes a preliminary RF pu...