US Patent Issued to Hyperfine on Dec. 9 for "Suppressing image artifact with RF pulse phase in multi-shot SS-FSE sequence" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,091, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hyperfine Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"Suppressing image artifact with RF pulse phase in multi-shot SS-FSE sequence" was invented by Deepansh Srivastava (Guilford, Conn.) and Laura Sacolick (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for suppressing image artifacts in multi-shot magnetic resonance (MR) images are disclosed. The techniques described herein include initiating a pulse train for a segment of a multi-shot fast spin-echo imaging procedure by applying an excitation radio frequency (RF) pulse, and transmitting a plurality of RF refocusing pulses for the segment. Each ...