US Patent Issued to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on Jan. 20 for "Method to improve uniformity of magnetization and MR image at 7T human MRIs" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,741, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Silver Spring, Md.).

"Method to improve uniformity of magnetization and MR image at 7T human MRIs" was invented by Bu S. Park (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement volume is divided into multiple regions of interest (ROIs) and RF shimming parameters are independently selected for each of the ROIs. The ROIs have dimensions based on an RF wavelength in a specimen (i.e., based on RF frequency and specimen dielectric constant) and are selected to reduce wavelength-based nonunifo...