US Patent Issued to Advanced MRI Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Highly accelerated sub-millimeter resolution 3D GRASE with controlled T2 blurring in T2-weighted functional MRI at 7 tesla" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,425, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Advanced MRI Technologies LLC (Sebastopol, Calif.).

"Highly accelerated sub-millimeter resolution 3D GRASE with controlled T2 blurring in T2-weighted functional MRI at 7 tesla" was invented by Suhyung Park (Sebastopol, Calif.) and David Feinberg (Sebastopol, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accelerated GRASE with controlled T2 blurring improves a point spread function (PSF) and temporal signal-to-noise ratio (tSNR) with many slices. The approach seeks to minimize a trade-off between SNR and blurring for functional sensitivity, and uses a new GRASE-optimized random encoding, which takes int...