US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 15 for "Realtime design of radio-frequency pulses and gradient pulses in magnetic resonance imaging" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,190, issued on July 15, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Realtime design of radio-frequency pulses and gradient pulses in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Yajing Zhang (Suzhou, China) and Jiazheng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120) and a convolutional neural network (122). The convolutional neural network is configured to receive as input a complex array (128) encoding a selection of at least one excitation field of view (324, 900) and in response output a radi...