US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on March 17 for "Autocalibrated multi-shot magnetic resonance image reconstruction with joint optimization of shot-dependent phase and parallel image reconstruction" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,408, issued on March 17, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Autocalibrated multi-shot magnetic resonance image reconstruction with joint optimization of shot-dependent phase and parallel image reconstruction" was invented by Stephen Cauley (Winchester, Mass.), Kawin Setsompop (Charlestown, Mass.), Lawrence Wald (Cambridge, Mass.) and Berkin Bilgic (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Images are reconstructed from k-space acquired with a magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI") system using a multi-shot pulse sequence. In each iteration, a phase-aware image reconstruction, a data-consistency update across al...