US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on July 29 for "Multi-echo radio frequency (RF) based spatial encoding in magnetic resonance imaging using frequency-modulated RF pulses" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,595, issued on July 29, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Multi-echo radio frequency (RF) based spatial encoding in magnetic resonance imaging using frequency-modulated RF pulses" was invented by Michael Garwood (Minneapolis), Efrain Torres (Minneapolis) and Taylor Froelich (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-echo radio frequency ("RF") gradient based magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI") is described. A gradient is established in the B1 RF field to enable B1-encoded pulse sequences, such as B1-encoded spin-echo pulse sequences. As a non-limiting example, the B1-field gradient can be es...