US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on April 8 for "Asymmetric single-channel radio frequency helmet coil for magnetic resonance imaging" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,872, issued on April 8, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Asymmetric single-channel radio frequency helmet coil for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Lawrence L. Wald (Cambridge, Mass.), Clarissa Zimmerman-Cooley (Boston), Patrick C. McDaniel (Boston) and Sai Abitha Srinivas (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Asymmetric, single-channel radio frequency ("RF") coils are provided for use with portable or other low-field magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI") systems. In general, the asymmetric, single-channel RF coils make use of asymmetric, optimized winding configurations in order to reduce B1+ inhomogene...