US Patent Issued to Hyperfine Operations on May 13 for "Systems and methods for low-field fast spin echo imaging" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,374, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hyperfine Operations Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for low-field fast spin echo imaging" was invented by Hadrien A. Dyvorne (New York), Laura Sacolick (Guilford, Conn.), Rafael O'Halloran (Guilford, Conn.) and Carole Lazarus (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system and method for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) images using a pulse sequence implementing driven equilibrium and quadratic phase cycling techniques is provided. The method includes, during a pulse repetition period of a pulse sequence and using a quadratic phase cycling scheme, a...