US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on June 24 for "System and method to reduce specific absorption rate in magnetic resonance imaging" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,336, issued on June 24, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method to reduce specific absorption rate in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Anand Kumar Venkatachari (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for imaging a subject using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes determining a tailored radio frequency (RF) pulse sequence having a plurality of refocusing pulses. In the method, a target peak RF pulse value is determined and a transfer function to convert a first refocusing pulse of the plurality of refocusing pulses to a modified refocusing pulse with ...