ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,000, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Illuminatio Medical Technology Ltd. (Hong Kong) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) (Hong Kong).

"Method and apparatus for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging using spin-lock radio frequency trains" was invented by Weitian Chen (Hong Kong), Baiyan Jiang (Hong Kong) and Ziqang Yu (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. In the method, a first magnetization signal is obtained based on a first train of spin-lock modules. Additionally, a secon...