US Patent Issued to Emory University on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for determining equilibrium CEST effect for multi-slice CEST imaging using quasi-steady state (QUASS) analysis" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,724, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Emory University (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for determining equilibrium CEST effect for multi-slice CEST imaging using quasi-steady state (QUASS) analysis" was invented by Phillip Zhe Sun (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The devices, systems, and methods can overcome the impact of scan protocols on experimental measurements to reconstruct the CEST equilibrium effect and can therefore improve the quantification of the underlying CEST contrast mechanism. The methods may include determining a spinlock relaxation rate for each RF offset for at least the first signal average so that the ...