US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers, The General Hospital on May 6 for "De-streaking algorithm for radial k-space data" (California, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,437, issued on May 6, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"De-streaking algorithm for radial k-space data" was invented by Fei Han (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Stephen Farman Cauley (Winchester, Mass.) and Vibhas S. Deshpande (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include segmentation of a first image of a subject to identify locations of anatomical structures of the subject, determination of a region of interest of the subject based on the locations of anatomical structures, determination of a coil-mixing matrix based on the region of interest, ...