US Patent Issued to Case Western Reserve University on March 18 for "System and method for passively shielded modular platform for parallel radiofrequency pulse transmit and/or receive" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,587, issued on March 18, was assigned to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland).

"System and method for passively shielded modular platform for parallel radiofrequency pulse transmit and/or receive" was invented by Nicholas Reid Bolding (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) and Mark A. Griswold (Shaker Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides transmit/receive (T/R) systems for NMR or MRI systems. In one configuration, the systems and methods provided herein may use passively-shielded coils that are compatible with low-field operational environment to replace conventional T/R systems and spatial gradient ...