US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on Jan. 13 for "Real-time cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) by respiratory phase" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,844, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Real-time cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) by respiratory phase" was invented by Steven R. Van Doren (Columbia, Mo.), Robert P. Thomen (Columbia, Mo.), Talissa A. Altes (Columbia, Mo.), Jia Xu (Columbia, Mo.), Zhijian Luan (Columbia, Mo.) and Ummul Afia Shammi (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and media are provided for image correction of magnetic resonance images (MRIs). Operations include capturing image data using a medical imaging system, and identifying respiratory principal components and cardiac pr...