US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center on Aug. 26 for "Reconstruction augmentation by constraining with intensity gradients in MRI" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,654, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Reconstruction augmentation by constraining with intensity gradients in MRI" was invented by Ali Pouryazdanpanah Kermani (Brookline, Mass.), Onur Afacan (Brookline, Mass.) and Simon K. Warfield (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for imaging a tissue region of a patient includes receiving a plurality of magnetic resonance (MR) signals of the tissue region, each MR signal being measured by a corresponding one of a plurality of coils, each coil having a different spatial sensitivity profile; and generating an image of the tissue reg...