US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 25 for "Automated deep correction of MRI phase-error" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,549, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Automated deep correction of MRI phase-error" was invented by Albert Hsiao (San Diego), Evan Masutani (La Jolla, Calif.) and Sophie You (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for automated correction of phase error in MRI-based flow evaluation employs a computer processor programmed to execute a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) to receive and process image data comprising flow velocity data in three directions and magnitude data collected from a region of interest over a scan period from ma...