US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 17 for "Ultra-fast arterial spin labeling with narrow-band velocity-selective (NB-VS) labeling" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,407, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Ultra-fast arterial spin labeling with narrow-band velocity-selective (NB-VS) labeling" was invented by Jia Guo (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for magnetic resonance imaging. A method includes applying a radio frequency (RF) signal of a predetermined time duration towards a target, wherein the RF signal comprises a composite pulse that includes a velocity-selective pulse comprising RF pulses whose phase shift is modulated over the predetermined time duration, ac...