ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,246, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).
"Techniques for diffusion imaging" was invented by Thorsten Feiweier (Poxdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to techniques for diffusion imaging of an examination region of a patient using a magnetic resonance facility. The technique may include specifying a number, which is at least two, of diffusion gradient pulse sequences for recording diffusion data sets using the magnetic resonance facility such that the diffusion gradient pulse sequences have a b-matrix that describes a planar diffusion encoding. The matrix may ...