US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Sept. 8 for "Image reconstruction incorporating maxwell fields and gradient impulse response function distortion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,839, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Image reconstruction incorporating maxwell fields and gradient impulse response function distortion" was invented by Nam Gyun Lee (Los Angeles) and Krishna Shrinivas Nayak (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, computer readable medium, apparatus and/or method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction that mitigates local blurring caused by static off-resonance and concomitant fields. The MRI reconstruction system may use phantom-based gradient impulse response function (GIRF) measurements and analytic expressions...