US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 1 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,787, issued on July 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Nobuyuki Yoshizawa (Chiba, Japan), Yoshitaka Bito (Chiba, Japan) and Takashi Nishihara (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In contrast-enhanced MRI, a visualization capability of a tissue which a contrast agent reaches is increased, and overall imaging time is shortened. An imaging unit of an MRI apparatus includes a gradient echo pulse sequence for acquiring a T1 weighted image including a fat saturation pulse, and a control unit performs control to generate images of a plurality of...