US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare, Balgrist Campus on June 24 for "Method and system for T1 mapping for tissue characterized by short-T2 relaxation in MRI" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,339, issued on June 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare GmbH (Erlangen, Germany) and Balgrist Campus AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method and system for T1 mapping for tissue characterized by short-T2 relaxation in MRI" was invented by Stefan Sommer (Zurich, Switzerland), Tom Hilbert (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Daniel Nanz (Hombrechtikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MRI method and system for mapping T1 relaxation times of a biological object with a part having a short-T2 relaxation time. The MRI system first performs one or several magnetization preparation radio frequency pulse sequences, with successive RF pulse s...