US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The General Hospital on June 16 for "Dynamic shim approach to correct eddy-currents and concomitant fields in magnetic resonance imaging using local shim coil" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,433, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Dynamic shim approach to correct eddy-currents and concomitant fields in magnetic resonance imaging using local shim coil" was invented by Kawin Setsompop (Stanford, Calif.), Adam Bruce Kerr (Menlo Park, Calif.), Xiaozhi Cao (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jason Stockmann (Cambridge, Mass.) and Congyu Liao (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for magnetic resonance imaging includes performing a pre-scan using a spin-echo diffusion acquisition with a one-time M...