ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,325, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"MR imaging with T1 compensated B1 mapping" was invented by Kay Nehrke (Ammersbek, Germany) and Peter Boernert (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of MR imaging. It is an object of the invention to provide an improved B1 mapping method that is less affected by T1 relaxation. The invention proposes that a first stimulated echo imaging sequence (25) is generated comprising at least two preparation RF pulses (Alpha) radiated during a first preparation period (21) and a sequence of reading RF pulses (B...