US Patent Issued to UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University on June 3 for "Method and apparatus for reconstructing an electrical conductivity map from magnetic resonance imaging" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,879, issued on June 3, was assigned to UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for reconstructing an electrical conductivity map from magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Dong-Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyu-Jin Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The exemplary embodiments provides an apparatus and a method for reconstructing an electrical conductivity map which reconstruct an electrical conductivity map for high resolution clinical data with a low SNR by generating virtual magnetic resonance imaging data and ground-truth electrical conductivi...