US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on March 25 for "Dynamic shimming for arterial spin labeling" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,452, issued on March 25, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Dynamic shimming for arterial spin labeling" was invented by Yulin Chang (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include determination of first shim channels and respective first shim currents to label a labeling region and image an imaging volume, determination of second shim channels and respective second shim currents to label the labeling region, and respective third shim currents to image the imaging volume, execution of a labeling phase of a pulse sequence while the first shim currents are applied to the first shi...