ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,586, issued on March 18, was assigned to UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE NORTH AMERICA INC. (Houston).
"Systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Qi Liu (Houston) and Jian Xu (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MRI method and system may be provided. A plurality of sets of k-space data of a region of interest (ROI) of a subject may be obtained. Each of the plurality of sets of k-space data may be collected during one of a plurality of acquisition periods after an MR sequence is applied on the subject. Then, for each of the plurality of sets of k-space data, position information of a reference region during ...