US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Nov. 11 for "Geometric distortion correction using local regularization" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,999, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Geometric distortion correction using local regularization" 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 a field map representing inhomogeneity of a main magnetic field of a magnetic resonance scanner within a subject, determination of a pixel shift map based on the field map, operation of the magnetic resonance scanner to generate an image of the subject, determination of a portion of the pixel shift map corresponding to a phase-encoding line of the image, determination of ...