ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,996, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Spin echo MR imaging with spiral acquisition" was invented by Miha Fuderer (Bunnik, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) positioned in an examination volume of an MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to enable spiral MR imaging with a reduced level of ringing artefacts close to strong local IC main magnetic field inhomogeneity. The method of the invention comprises the following steps:-generating a spin echo by subjecting the object (10) to an imaging sequence c...