ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,878, issued on June 3, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Systems and methods for magnetic resonance image reconstruction from incomplete k-space data" was invented by Ed Xuekui Wu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yilong Liu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Linfang Xiao (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are deep learning based methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image reconstruction from partial Fourier-space (i.e., k-space) data, involving: obtaining high-quality complex MRI image data or fully-sampled k-space data as training data; training reconstruction models to predict hig...