US Patent Issued to The MITRE on July 29 for "Systems and methods for estimating magnetic susceptibility through continuous motion in an MRI scanner" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,597, issued on July 29, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for estimating magnetic susceptibility through continuous motion in an MRI scanner" was invented by Joseph Dagher (McLean, Va.) and Ben Berman (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for estimating magnetic susceptibility of a patient through continuous motion in an MRI scanner are provided herein. In one or more examples, during the collection of data, the patient can be instructed to move their head or other part of the body in a continuous manner and for a fixed duration of time. During the fixed duration of time, ma...