US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Oct. 7 for "Image processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and signal separation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,216, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and signal separation method" was invented by Takashi Nishihara (Chiba, Japan), Toru Shirai (Chiba, Japan), Yoshitaka Bito (Chiba, Japan) and Masahiro Takizawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In separating water and fat with applying the Dixon method, peak intensities of fat with multiple peaks are individually calculated with a high degree of accuracy while reducing the number of variables to be estimated. Multiple images made up of signals acquired at different echo times (TEs) are used to so...