US Patent Issued to The Chinese University of Hong Kong on Aug. 19 for "System and method for tissue characterization using fast quantitative spin-lock magnetization transfer imaging" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,853, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (N.T., China).

"System and method for tissue characterization using fast quantitative spin-lock magnetization transfer imaging" was invented by Jian Hou (Xincheng Town, China) and Weitian Chen (Ma An Shan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for fast and robust quantification of magnetization transfer (MT) use off-resonance spin-lock MRI with as few as two or three image acquisitions. Each image acquisition can be performed using an off-resonance spin-lock pulse having a different RF amplitude and frequency offset. A parameter representin...