US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Aug. 12 for "System and method for reduced fine-line artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,998, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for reduced fine-line artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Ali Ersoz (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for imaging a subject using an magnetic resonance imaging (MR) system is presented. The method includes sampling a k-space in a rotating fashion using a plurality of radially directed blades around a center of the k-space. A first subset of blades is acquired with a positive excitation pulse and a first plurality of refocusing pulses. Further, a second subset of blades is acquired with a...