US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 3 for "Method for the optimized acquisition of diffusion-weighted measurement data of an object under examination by a magnetic resonance system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,881, issued on June 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Method for the optimized acquisition of diffusion-weighted measurement data of an object under examination by a magnetic resonance system" was invented by Thorsten Feiweier (Bavaria, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for the optimized acquisition of diffusion-weighted measurement data of an object under examination using a magnetic resonance (MR) system, a first set of diffusion-weighted measurement data is captured by excitation, and, in an acquisition phase, acquisition of at least one position-encoded echo signal, where prior to th...