US Patent Issued to THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY on July 22 for "Real-time ultra-quality multi-parametric four-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging system and the method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,410, issued on July 22, was assigned to THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (Hong Kong).

"Real-time ultra-quality multi-parametric four-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging system and the method thereof" was invented by Jing Cai (Hong Kong), Haonan Xiao (Hong Kong) and Tian Li (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for training a convolutional neural network (CNN) using training data comprising a pair of original and downsampled 4D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is provided. The CNN is used to generate multi-parametric 4D magnetic resonance (MR) images based on multi-parametric 3D MR images ...