US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 8 for "Pointwise encoding time reduction with radial acquisition (PETRA) techniques with reduced computational complexity" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,170, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Pointwise encoding time reduction with radial acquisition (PETRA) techniques with reduced computational complexity" was invented by David Grodzki (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the context of a method according to the disclosure for generating measurement data from an imaging area in a measurement volume of a magnetic resonance system, using a PETRA method, a pulse duration of at least one RF excitation pulse radiated during a single-shot recording method of the PETRA method is extended compared to a pulse duration of RF excit...