ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,778, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Apparatus and methods for improved denoising in magnetic resonance imaging based on metal artifact reduction" was invented by Samir Dev Sharma (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus correcting a metal artifact in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. The method and apparatus acquire plural slices along a slice direction of a scanned region associated with a body part, estimate a spatial extent of a signal dispersion of the acquired plural slices along the slice direction, and comb...