Patents by Inventor Christopher Michael Sandino

Christopher Michael Sandino 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).

  • Patent number: 11823307
    Abstract: A method for MR imaging includes acquiring with an MR imaging apparatus undersampled k-space imaging data having one or more temporal dimensions and two or more spatial dimensions; transforming the undersampled k-space imaging data to image space data using zero-filled or sliding window reconstruction and sensitivity maps; decomposing the image space data into a compressed representation comprising a product of spatial and temporal parts, where the spatial part comprises spatial basis functions and the temporal part comprises temporal basis functions; processing the spatial basis functions and temporal basis functions to produce reconstructed spatial basis functions and reconstructed temporal basis functions, wherein the processing iteratively applies conjugate gradient and convolutional neural network updates using 2D or 3D spatial and 1D temporal networks; and decompressing the reconstructed spatial basis functions and reconstructed temporal basis functions to produce a reconstructed MRI image having one or
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Sandino, Shreyas S. Vasanawala, Frank Ong
  • Publication number: 20230266417
    Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) performs a spoiled gradient-recalled (SPGR) MRI scan with an MRI scanner to produce MRI data; and reconstructs an MRI image from the MRI data; wherein performing the SPGR MRI scan comprises playing an interleaved-randomized spoiler (IRS) gradient after every M-th acquisition block, where M?2, and where an absolute area of the IRS gradient of each IRS is randomized between zero and a maximum gradient area achievable on the MRI scanner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Zheng Zhong, Christopher Michael Sandino, Shreyas S. Vasanawala
  • Publication number: 20220375141
    Abstract: A method for MR imaging includes acquiring with an MR imaging apparatus undersampled k-space imaging data having one or more temporal dimensions and two or more spatial dimensions; transforming the undersampled k-space imaging data to image space data using zero-filled or sliding window reconstruction and sensitivity maps; decomposing the image space data into a compressed representation comprising a product of spatial and temporal parts, where the spatial part comprises spatial basis functions and the temporal part comprises temporal basis functions; processing the spatial basis functions and temporal basis functions to produce reconstructed spatial basis functions and reconstructed temporal basis functions, wherein the processing iteratively applies conjugate gradient and convolutional neural network updates using 2D or 3D spatial and 1D temporal networks; and decompressing the reconstructed spatial basis functions and reconstructed temporal basis functions to produce a reconstructed MRI image having one or
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Sandino, Shreyas S. Vasanawala, Frank Ong
  • Patent number: 11125846
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) comprising: acquiring phase contrast 3D spatiotemporal MRI image data; inputing the 3D spatiotemporal MRI image data to a three-dimensional spatiotemporal convolutional neural network to produce a phase unwrapping estimate; generating from the phase unwrapping estimate an integer number of wraps per pixel; and combining the integer number of wraps per pixel with the phase contrast 3D spatiotemporal MRI image data to produce final output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Sandino, Shreyas S. Vasanawala, Joseph Yitan Cheng, Jiacheng Jason He
  • Patent number: 11085988
    Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes steps of acquiring by an MRI scanner undersampled magnetic-field-gradient-encoded k-space data; performing a self-calibration of a magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function using a first neural network to estimate systematic waveform errors from the k-space data, and computing the magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function from the systematic waveform errors; reconstructing an image using a second neural network from the magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function and the k-space data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Feiyu Chen, Christopher Michael Sandino, Joseph Yitan Cheng, John M. Pauly, Shreyas S. Vasanawala
  • Publication number: 20200300955
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) comprising: acquiring phase contrast 3D spatiotemporal MRI image data; inputing the 3D spatiotemporal MRI image data to a three-dimensional spatiotemporal convolutional neural network to produce a phase unwrapping estimate; generating from the phase unwrapping estimate an integer number of wraps per pixel; and combining the integer number of wraps per pixel with the phase contrast 3D spatiotemporal MRI image data to produce final output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Sandino, Shreyas S. Vasanawala, Joseph Yitan Cheng, Jiacheng Jason He
  • Publication number: 20200300957
    Abstract: A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes steps of acquiring by an MRI scanner undersampled magnetic-field-gradient-encoded k-space data; performing a self-calibration of a magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function using a first neural network to estimate systematic waveform errors from the k-space data, and computing the magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function from the systematic waveform errors; reconstructing an image using a second neural network from the magnetic-field-gradient-encoding point-spread function and the k-space data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Feiyu Chen, Christopher Michael Sandino, Joseph Yitan Cheng, John M. Pauly, Shreyas S. Vasanawala
  • Publication number: 20200249300
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for reconstructing magnetic resonance images from accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MM) data. In one embodiment, a method for reconstructing a magnetic resonance (MR) image includes: estimating multiple sets of coil sensitivity maps from undersampled k-space data, the undersampled k-space data acquired by a multi-coil radio frequency (RF) receiver array; reconstructing multiple initial images using the undersampled k-space data and the estimated multiple sets of coil sensitivity maps; iteratively reconstructing, with a trained deep neural network, multiple images by using the initial images and the multiple sets of coil sensitivity maps to generate multiple final images, each of the multiple images corresponding to a different set of the multiple sets of sensitivity maps; and combining the multiple final images output from the trained deep neural network to generate the MR image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Sandino, Peng Lai, Shreyas Vasanawala, Joseph Yitan Cheng
  • Patent number: 10712416
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for reconstructing magnetic resonance images from accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. In one embodiment, a method for reconstructing a magnetic resonance (MR) image includes: estimating multiple sets of coil sensitivity maps from undersampled k-space data, the undersampled k-space data acquired by a multi-coil radio frequency (RF) receiver array; reconstructing multiple initial images using the undersampled k-space data and the estimated multiple sets of coil sensitivity maps; iteratively reconstructing, with a trained deep neural network, multiple images by using the initial images and the multiple sets of coil sensitivity maps to generate multiple final images, each of the multiple images corresponding to a different set of the multiple sets of sensitivity maps; and combining the multiple final images output from the trained deep neural network to generate the MR image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE, LLC, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Sandino, Peng Lai, Shreyas Vasanawala, Joseph Yitan Cheng