US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on April 14 for "System and method for producing magnetic resonance images with in-plane simultaneous multi-segments and for producing 3D magnetic resonance images with reduced field-of-view" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,802, issued on April 14, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"System and method for producing magnetic resonance images with in-plane simultaneous multi-segments and for producing 3D magnetic resonance images with reduced field-of-view" was invented by Xiaohong Joe Zhou (Naperville, Ill.) and Kaibao Sun (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides technologies that allow reduced field of view or fast imaging with reduced image distortion. The first technique capitalizes on the benefit of reduced field of view imaging for full field of view coverage. The secon...