ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,848, issued on March 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"MR imaging for radiation therapy planning" was invented by Steffen Weiss (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of a body (10) of a patient positioned in an examination volume of an MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to provide a method that enables geometrically correct MR-only radiation therapy planning at minimum scan times. The method of the invention comprises the following steps: acquiring first MR imaging data representative of at least one region of the body (10);...