US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Sept. 9 for "System and method for improved fat suppression for diffusion weighted imaging in magnetic resonance imaging" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,195, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for improved fat suppression for diffusion weighted imaging in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Diego Hernando Arribas (Madison, Wis.) and Aidan Tollefson (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for acquiring diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) images of a subject using a magnetic resonance imaging system includes performing a chemical-shift encoded (CSE) prescan of a subject to generate a fat image, a water image, and a B0 field map. The method also includes, for each slice ...