US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center on Aug. 5 for "Fetal cardiac MRI using self-gating with a cartesian k-space trajectory" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,748, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Fetal cardiac MRI using self-gating with a cartesian k-space trajectory" was invented by Henrik Q Von Kleist (Munich), Andrew Powell (Dedham, Mass.) and Mehdi Hedjazi Moghari (Auburndale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fetal cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images of a living fetus, within a uterus of a parent of the fetus, can be generated by imaging the fetus within the uterus using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. Information indicative of fetal cardiac cycles can be derived from MR data obtained by an MRI system while imaging the fetus...