US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 21 for "Suppression of background tissue signals in velocity selective arterial spin labeling (VSASL)" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,694, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Suppression of background tissue signals in velocity selective arterial spin labeling (VSASL)" was invented by Jia Guo (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes configuring the system to receive an input indicative of time intervals to be used for imaging a target object; controlling the one or more RF coils to apply a first order of modules including at least a first control module at a first time point and a first labeling module at a second time...