US Patent Issued to Universitaet Ulm on June 16 for "System and method for acquisition of a magnetic resonance image as well as device for determining a trajectory for acquisition of a magnetic resonance image" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,436, issued on June 16, was assigned to Universitaet Ulm (Ulm, Germany).

"System and method for acquisition of a magnetic resonance image as well as device for determining a trajectory for acquisition of a magnetic resonance image" was invented by Tobias Speidel (Ulm, Germany) and Volker Rasche (Erbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for acquisition of a magnetic resonance image independent on an a-priori defined field-of-view (FOV), the method comprising the sequence of steps: determining a k-space trajectory for acquisition of k-space MRI data, wherein said k-space trajectory compri...