ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,993, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).
"Systems and methods for multi-field-of-view imaging" was invented by Silvia Mangia (Minneapolis), Shalom Michaeli (Minneapolis), Djaudat Idiyatullin (Minneapolis), Gregor Adriany (Minneapolis), Mikko Kettunen (Minneapolis), Michael Garwood (Minneapolis) and Olli Grohn (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing an image of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method includes acquiring first MRI data from the subject using a first coil having a first field of view (FOV), simultaneously...