US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Feb. 18 for "MRI system comprising patient motion sensor and signal processing method" (Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,201, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"MRI system comprising patient motion sensor and signal processing method" was invented by Randall H. Buchwald (Nashotah, Wis.) and Louis Jay Vannatta (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging system includes a bore, a table configured to support a patient being imaged and movable to move the patient in and out of the bore, a motion sensor, a controller configured to detect patient motion based on changes in an RF signal from the motion sensor. The motion sensor includes a self-resonant spiral (SRS) coil excite...