ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,994, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).
"Capturing magnetic resonance image data" was invented by Jonas Faust (Erlangen, Germany), Peter Speier (Erlangen, Germany) and Florian Maier (Buckenhof, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Capturing MR image data of an examination object using an MR apparatus, including: performing a balanced steady-state free precession sequence with phase progress of 180 degrees per repetition time using the MR apparatus; in the balanced steady-state free precession sequence, providing a white-marker gradient in order at least partially to balance a dephasing cau...