US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 17 for "Multiple coil sensitivity maps of coils of a receiver array of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and sense reconstruction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,507, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Multiple coil sensitivity maps of coils of a receiver array of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and sense reconstruction" was invented by Thomas Benkert (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany) and Marcel Nickel Dominik (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples relate to SENSitivity Encoding (SENSE) reconstruction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. Multiple coil sensitivity maps per coil of a receiver coil array are used, e.g., obtained from an Eigenvalue-based Spatially Constrained Iterative Reconstruction Techn...