US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers, The General Hospital on Nov. 11 for "Method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image dataset and generating a motion-corrected image dataset" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,994, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image dataset and generating a motion-corrected image dataset" was invented by Daniel Polak (Erlangen, Germany), Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff (Uttenreuth, Germany) and Stephen Farman Cauley (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for acquiring a magnetic resonance image dataset of an object, using an imaging protocol in which several k-space lines are acquired in one echo train, wherein the echo train may include one or several sub echo tra...