US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on Feb. 17 for "Methods and systems for functional magnetic resonance imaging with a Zero Echo Time pulse-sequence" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,131, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for functional magnetic resonance imaging with a Zero Echo Time pulse-sequence" was invented by Yen-Yu Shih (Cary, N.C.), Martin John MacKinnon (Raleigh, N.C.), Yuncong Ma (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Wei-Tang Chang (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes systems and methods for using Zero Echo Time (ZTE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences for applications to functional MRI (fMRI). In some examples, a system for functional magnetic resonance imaging includes a magn...