US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Jan. 13 for "Method for fast TX/RX intensity correction calibration using B1 projections in magnetic resonance imaging systems" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,725, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Method for fast TX/RX intensity correction calibration using B1 projections in magnetic resonance imaging systems" was invented by Andrew James Wheaton (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Yoshinori Hamamura (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an intensity-corrected magnetic resonance image includes acquiring B1 projection data of a patient using a magnetic resonance imaging system. The method also includes determining a transmit map using only the acquired B1 projection data. The method further includes acquiring an ima...