US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Dec. 30 for "Method and apparatus for obtaining T1-weighted and susceptibility-weighted imaging image" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,615, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for obtaining T1-weighted and susceptibility-weighted imaging image" was invented by Kun Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Wei Liu (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for obtaining T1-weighted and susceptibility-weighted imaging images may include in a 3D EPI process with a plurality of times of excitation, for each time of excitation, first performing radio frequency pulse excitation on target tissue, and simultaneously applying a slice selection gradient pulse to the target tissue in a slice selec...