US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on Jan. 20 for "Method and system for improved magnetic resonance imaging" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,746, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Method and system for improved magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Xiaohong Joe Zhou (Naperville, Ill.), Guangyu Dan (Chicago) and Kaibao Sun (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Magnetic resonance imaging systems and methods are provided for time-efficiently producing a plurality of image contrasts, the plurality of image contrasts including a first contrast being coupled with a second contrast and acquired over a plurality of key parameters that govern the second contrast to which the first contrast is co...