US Patent Issued to The Medical College of Wisconsin on May 13 for "Simultaneous multi-orientation magnetic resonance imaging" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,371, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc. (Milwaukee).

"Simultaneous multi-orientation magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Nikolai Jonas Mickevicius (Mukwonago, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Simultaneous multi-orientation ("SMO") magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI"), in which arbitrarily-oriented slices are simultaneously imaged, is described. The SMO techniques can include any number of pulse sequences that are adapted to acquire data from two or more arbitrarily oriented slices. In general, an SMO acquisition includes sequentially exciting two or more arbitrarily rotated slices that sh...