US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Feb. 24 for "Region-optimzed virtual (ROVir) coils" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,870, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Region-optimzed virtual (ROVir) coils" was invented by Justin Haldar (Alhambra, Calif.) and Daeun Kim (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of image reconstruction are provided. A system may have a memory and a processor to receive data corresponding to magnetic resonance imaging coils and data corresponding to a region of interest within a field of view of the magnetic resonance imaging machine. By determining different weights to associate with virtualized magnetic resonance imaging coils, images may be reconstructed ...