US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Dec. 16 for "Prospective slice tracking through interleaved perpendicular acquisitions of dynamic 2D cardiovascular MRI" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,594, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Prospective slice tracking through interleaved perpendicular acquisitions of dynamic 2D cardiovascular MRI" was invented by Karl-Philipp Kunze (London) and Radhouene Neji (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a method for generating MR images of the heart, the method comprising acquiring and reconstructing a first set of 2D reference images of the heart during a reference heartbeat, the first set comprising a first reference image acquired along a first reference plane position th...