US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on May 27 for "Three-dimensional diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,714, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Three-dimensional diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Julian Richter (Hessdorf, Germany) and Manuel Stich (Parkstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for performing three-dimensional diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging. A diffusion gradient is applied by controlling a gradient coil arrangement of an MRI system and, during an acquisition period after the application of the diffusion gradient, a readout gradient is applied by controlling the gradient coil arrangement and MR data is acq...