Patents by Inventor Kim Cornelia Carolina Van De Ven

Kim Cornelia Carolina Van De Ven has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Planning support for selective arterial spin labeling MR imaging methods
    Patent number: 10871538
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of at least a portion of a body (10) placed in a main magnetic field within the examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to facilitate the planning of an arterial spin labeling (ASL) MR imaging session and to improve the image quality in perfusion weighted MR imaging. The method of the invention comprises the following steps: acquiring angiographic MR signal data by subjecting the portion of the examined body (10) to one or more MR angiography scans; deriving quantitative blood flow parameters from the angiographic MR signal data; —computing a labeling efficiency of an ASL sequence from the sequence parameters of the ASL sequence and from the quantitative blood flow parameters; optimizing the sequence parameters by maximizing the labeling efficiency; acquiring perfusion weighted MR signal data by subjecting the portion of the body to the ASL sequence; and—reconstructing a MR image from the perfusion weighted MR signal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Michael Gunter Helle, Peter Boernert, Kim Cornelia Carolina Van De Ven