US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers, Duke University on Sept. 2 for "Combined acquisition and reordering scheme for reconstructing images with reduced motion artifacts" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,332, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Combined acquisition and reordering scheme for reconstructing images with reduced motion artifacts" was invented by Wolfgang G. Rehwald (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Raymond J. Kim (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Enn-Ling Chen (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and David C. Wendell (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reordering a segmented MRI pulse sequence includes synchronizing to a physiologic signal of a heart or vessel, to a respiratory signal, or to an external trigger source, and acquiring a plurality of data collectin...