US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Dec. 2 for "Distortion-free diffusion and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging with blip up-down acquisition of spin- and gradient-echoes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,307, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Distortion-free diffusion and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging with blip up-down acquisition of spin- and gradient-echoes" was invented by Berkin Bilgic (Winchester, Mass.), Zijing Zhang (Malden, Mass.), Congyu Liao (Charlestown, Mass.), JaeJin Cho (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mary Kate Manhard (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI") using a spin- and gradient-echo ("SAGE") pulse sequence with blip up-down acquisition ("BUDA") encoding enables distortion-free, high-resolution diffusion-weighted imaging and/or quant...