US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS, The Regents of the University of California on June 17 for "MRI apparatus" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,508, issued on June 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"MRI apparatus" was invented by Mitsue Miyazaki (Poway, Calif.), Won Bae (San Diego), Vadim Malis (San Diego) and Yoshimori Kassai (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes: a scanner that includes a static magnetic field magnet, a gradient coil, and a WB coil; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: cause the scanner to image, under a first imaging method, a tissue including a perfusion route of body ...