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Search Patents by Kathryn Keenan

Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.

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Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting Thermometry

NIST Inventors
Kathryn Keenan and Megan Poorman
A method for temperature quantification using magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) includes acquiring MRF data from a region of interest in a subject using an MRF pulse sequence with smoothly varying RF phase for MR resonant frequencies that is played out continuously. For each of a plurality of

Liquid Crystal Thermometer for MRI

NIST Inventors
Elizabeth Mirowski and Kathryn Keenan
Cost effective and quality assurance friendly magnetic resonance imaging thermometer using non-encapsulated liquid c1ystals to be incorporated in standard reference objects for magnetic resonance imaging.