Patents by Inventor Maria I. Altbach

Maria I. Altbach 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: 11860256
    Abstract: A method for producing a streak-suppressed MR image of a subject includes (i) generating an interference correlation matrix from M coil images, (ii) producing eigenvectors of the interference correlation matrix, and (iii) determining, from the subspace-eigenvectors, a projection matrix of the interference null space. The subspace-eigenvectors include a plurality of subspace-eigenvectors that span an interference subspace and a plurality of null-space-eigenvectors that span an interference null space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of The University of Arizona
    Inventors: Zhiyang Fu, Maria I. Altbach, Ali Bilgin
  • Publication number: 20220334207
    Abstract: A method for producing a streak-suppressed MR image of a subject includes (i) generating an interference correlation matrix from M coil images, (ii) producing eigenvectors of the interference correlation matrix, and (iii) determining, from the subspace-eigenvectors, a projection matrix of the interference null space. The subspace-eigenvectors include a plurality of subspace-eigenvectors that span an interference subspace and a plurality of null-space-eigenvectors that span an interference null space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Zhiyang Fu, Maria I. Altbach, Ali Bilgin
  • Publication number: 20210124005
    Abstract: A method for producing a streak-suppressed magnetic resonance (MR) image of a subject includes generating an interference covariance matrix {circumflex over (?)}R front N coil images Ij (x,y), j={1, 2, . . . , N}, each of the N coil images Ij (x,y) corresponding to MR signals detected by a respective one of a phased array of N coils of an MRI scanner. The MR signals originate in voxels of the subject corresponding to an artifact-corrupted region of a coil image. Coordinates (x,y) correspond to a location within a cross-sectional plane of the subject. The method also includes, for subject-regions of cross-sectional plane centered at a respective location (x,y), determining a coil weight vector W (x,y) from {circumflex over (?)}R. The method also includes generating the streak-suppressed MR image as a weighted sum of the coil images Ij (x,y), each weight of the weighted sum being Wj* (x,y), a jth element of a complex conjugate of coil weight vector W (x,y).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Sagar Mandava, Maria I. Altbach, Ali Bilgin, Diego R. Martin, Mahesh Bharath Keerthivasan