ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,188, issued on July 15, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Dixon-type water/fat separation MR imaging" was invented by Holger Eggers (Ellerhoop, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of Dixon-type MR imaging. The object (10) is subjected to a dual- or multi-acquisition imaging sequence comprising a series of temporally equidistant RF pulses. An echo signal is generated in the presence of a readout magnetic field gradient in each time interval (TR) between successive RF pulses, with the echo time varying between at least a first value (TE1) associated with a first acq...