US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on April 21 for "Systems and methods for simultaneously measuring diffusion weighted spin-echo and stimulated echo signals" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,696, issued on April 21, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Systems and methods for simultaneously measuring diffusion weighted spin-echo and stimulated echo signals" was invented by Eun-Kee Jeong (Salt Lake City), Kyle Jeong (Salt Lake City) and John W. Rose (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for applying a diffusion-weighting gradient during acquisition of diffusion-weighted imaging signals from a selected portion of a nervous system of a subject. Planar diffusion-weighted spin-echo (DWSE) imaging signals and planar diffusion-weighted stimulated-echo (DWSTE) imaging signa...