US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Nov. 4 for "Method for subject-specific optimization of a multi-band RF pulse" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,178, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for subject-specific optimization of a multi-band RF pulse" was invented by Belinda Ding Yuan (Glasgow, Great Britain), Iulius Dragonu (Harrow, Great Britain), Raphael Tomi-Tricot (London), Ali Aghaeifar (Tubingen, Germany) and Radhouene Neji (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimization of an RF pulse that is multi-band. The RF pulse is a spokes RF pulse including a train of sub-pulses. The method includes using a starting k-space position as a current k-space position, and for each of slices to be excited by the RF pulse, ...