US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 25 for "Image processing apparatus for correcting distortions of magnetic resonance images" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,013, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Image processing apparatus for correcting distortions of magnetic resonance images" was invented by Shohei Hamanaga (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain two magnetic resonance images corresponding to two phase encoding directions opposite to each other. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a shift map related to shifting a plurality of pixels in the two magnetic resonance images, by op...