US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for slice-ahead inversion for magnetic resonance imaging" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,496, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for slice-ahead inversion for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Tim Sprenger (Bavaria, Germany) and Suchandrima Banerjee (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a slice-ahead inversion sequence for jointly acquiring non-inverted and inverted contrast. In one example, a method for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes acquiring k-space data with the MRI system according to a slice-ahead inversion sequence that jointly generates a contrast without inversion pre...