Patent classifications
G01R33/4835
Creating Calibration Data for Processing Recorded Measurement Data of an Object to be Examined Using an MR System
A method for creating calibration data for processing accelerated measurement data of an object to be examined using a magnetic resonance system. The method includes recording measurement data sets using an acquisition acceleration method, recording calibration data sets, and determining processed measurement data sets from the accelerated measurement data sets using the calibration data sets so that effects of the acquisition acceleration method used are eliminated in the processed measurement data sets. The recording of the calibration data sets includes an application of at least one attenuation method for attenuating signals causing phase errors.
Magnetic resonance imaging and motion detection
The disclosure facilitates determining patient motion during a magnetic resonance protocol. According to some examples, the patient motion may be corrected or compensated.
Inflow-based pulse wave velocity profiling along the aorta using magnetic resonance imaging
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for pulse wave velocity (PWV) measurement along the aorta of a subject using MR imaging, a multislice cardio synchronized segmented ciné MR data acquisition sequence is optimized in order to enhance inflow representation in the slice images, in order to make the multislice MR data acquisition sequence viable for clinical uses, so as to acquire intensity-based MR data from two transverse slices spaced from each other along the descending aorta. The respective intensities of relevant pixels in at least two respective slice images are analyzed in order to identify the arrival of a pulse wave in the respective slices by the onset of flow enhancement in the slices, represented by intensity changes in the pixels. From the onset of flow enhancement in the respective slice images, PWV is calculated. An electronic signal representing the calculated PWV is then provided from a computer.
3D OSCILLATING GRADIENT-PREPARED GRADIENT SPIN-ECHO IMAGING METHOD, AND DEVICE
A method for 3D oscillating-gradient prepared gradient spin-echo imaging and a device. The imaging method comprises the following steps: first, using a global saturation module to destroy previous residual transverse magnetization; second, embedding a pair of trapezoidal cosine oscillating gradients into a 90°.sub.x-180°.sub.y-90°.sub.−x radiofrequency pulse by a diffusion encoding module, to separate diffusion encoding from signal acquisition; then, using a fat saturation module to suppress a fat signal; finally, acquiring a signal by means of gradient spin-echo readout, and correcting phase errors among multiple excitations by multiplexed sensitivity-encoding reconstruction. Compared with a 2D plane echo-based oscillating gradient diffusion sequence used on a 3T clinical system, a 3D oscillating-gradient prepared gradient spin-echo sequence effectively reduces the imaging time, improves the signal to noise ratio, and is beneficial to clinical transformation of time-dependent diffusion MRI technology
SHOT-WISE INVERSION TIME ADAPTATION FOR MULTI-SHOT INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING
A system and method comprises execution of a segmented magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence, the pulse sequence including a plurality of shots, each of the plurality of shots including an inversion recovery preparation pulse and acquiring a respective segment of k-space lines, wherein each shot comprises a different inversion time between a peak of the inversion recovery pulse and a midpoint of the acquisition of the respective segment of k-space lines, and reconstruction of an image based on the acquired respective segments of k-space lines. In some aspects, the k-space lines acquired by each shot are consecutive in a phase encoding direction of k-space and each shot acquires the segments of k-space lines acquired by prior shots in the sequence, and a time delay between the inversion recovery preparation pulse and acquisition of a first segment for each shot is equal. In other aspects, each shot acquires its respective segment using interleaved reordering and the time delay between the inversion recovery preparation pulse and acquisition of the respective segment for each shot is different.
MRI method and device based on a blade sequence, and storage medium
The present disclosure discloses a magnetic resonance imaging method based on a blade sequence. The method can include acquiring 3-D data collected by a surface coil, determining a corresponding plurality of kernel data of each blade from the 3-D data according to the position information of each blade, collecting a corresponding plurality of slices of aliasing K-space data of each blade, performing convolution operations for the corresponding plurality of slices of aliasing K-space data of each blade and the corresponding plurality of kernel data of each blade to obtain a corresponding plurality of unaliasing K-space data of each blade, and reconstructing images for the corresponding plurality of unaliasing K-space data of different blades to obtain a plurality of unaliasing images. The present disclosure further describes a magnetic resonance imaging device for realizing the method and a computer-readable storage medium.
Saturation-prepared recording of MR image data
A method is provided for the saturation-prepared recording of MR image data. The method includes establishment of at least two measurement slices in an examination volume of an examination object, wherein the examination volume has adjacent slices which each adjoin at least one of the at least two measurement slices; output of a saturation module including at least one saturation pulse for saturating a magnetization of the adjacent slices; output of an excitation pulse for exciting a magnetization of at least one of the at least two measurement slices; readout of an MR signal of the examination volume; reconstruction of the MR image data from the at least two measurement slices based on the MR signal; and provision of the MR image data. The disclosure further relates to a magnetic resonance system and a computer program product.
BRAIN MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
Provided is a brain measurement system including: a geomagnetic correction coil; a geomagnetic gradient correction coil; a transmission coil; a receiving coil; a plurality of resonance adjustment circuits; a plurality of OPM modules provided corresponding to each of the plurality of resonance adjustment circuits for detecting a signal having a resonance frequency output from the resonance adjustment circuit; and a control device for generating an MR image based on the signal detected by the OPM module, wherein, when a direction parallel to a central axis of a head portion of a subject is defined as a Z-axis direction, the resonance frequency related to each of the plurality of resonance adjustment circuits is set according to a magnetic field gradient in the Z-axis direction generated by control of a position of the corresponding receiving coil in the Z-axis direction and a tilted magnetic field.
Method for recording diffusion-weighted measurement data by means of a magnetic resonance system
In a method for recording diffusion-weighted measurement data, using a MR system with diffusion weightings with two+ different b-values, diffusion directions and diffusion weightings with the associated b-values to be used for the desired recordings are loaded, a sequence of recordings of measurement data to be recorded consecutively are determined by sorting the diffusion directions and diffusion weightings to be recorded based on their associated b-value, such that the b-value of a recording of measurement data is less than the b-value of the immediately preceding recording of measurement data by no more than a predetermined threshold value, and the recordings are recorded based on the determined sequence. By arranging diffusion encodings for the desired recordings to be used consecutively, abrupt discontinuities in the b-values used chronologically are prevented, thereby eddy current effects from preceding recordings have time to abate in the case of recordings with small b-values.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM AND SHIMMING METHOD AND IMAGING METHOD THEREOF
Embodiments of the present application provide a magnetic resonance system and a shimming method and an imaging method thereof. The shimming method comprises: performing a scout scan on a subject to be examined, and obtaining phase data of a plurality of slice positions; determining three-dimensional space static magnetic field information according to the phase data of the plurality of slice positions; and determining a shimming value of a slice in a region of interest according to the three-dimensional space static magnetic field information.