US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Jan. 20 for "Method and system for magnetic resonance imaging" (British, Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,745, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and system for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Daniel Staeb (Port Melbourne, Australia), Karl-Philipp Kunze (London) and Peter Speier (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing magnetic resonance imaging are provided, which include applying at least two different pulse sequences designed for simultaneous excitation of at least two slices, and measuring k-space lines of the slices with a Parallel Imaging Results in Higher Acceleration (CAIPIRINHA) sampling scheme. Each pulse sequence comprises mult...