US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 4 for "Method and apparatus for limiting radio frequency alternating magnetic field in magnetic resonance imaging" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,188, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for limiting radio frequency alternating magnetic field in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Ying Lun Wang (Shenzhen, China), Qiu Yi Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhi Bin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for limiting a B1 field used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The techniques described herein reduce a waste of performance of the B1 field while ensuring patient safety and improving the MR imaging quality."

The patent was filed on March 27, 2023, under Applicati...