US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Sept. 8 for "System and method for distortion and motion artifact-free diffusion imaging using single-shot diffusion-prepared turbo-spin-echo sequence with spiral-ring readouts and magnitude stabilizers" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,171, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"System and method for distortion and motion artifact-free diffusion imaging using single-shot diffusion-prepared turbo-spin-echo sequence with spiral-ring readouts and magnitude stabilizers" was invented by Zhixing Wang (Charlottesville, Va.), John P. Mugler III (Charlottesville, Va.) and Craig H. Meyer (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acquiring magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data includes steps of using a computer to implement software program steps in a diffusion preparation software component and a spiral...