US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Oct. 14 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image correction method, and static magnetic field inhomogeneity correction method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,877, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image correction method, and static magnetic field inhomogeneity correction method" was invented by Naoya Sakaguchi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MRI apparatus capable of correcting a static magnetic field inhomogeneity caused by application of a gradient magnetic field by a simple calculation, and a correction method of the MRI apparatus are provided. An image quality deterioration due to the static magnetic field inhomogeneity caused by application of a gradient magnetic field is estimated by a simple calculation...