G01R33/561

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPIN-ECHO TRAIN IMAGING USING SPIRAL RINGS WITH RETRACED TRAJECTORIES

Methods, computing devices, and magnetic resonance imaging systems that improve image quality in turbo spiral echo (TSE) imaging are disclosed. With this technology, a TSE pulse sequence is generated that includes a series of radio frequency (RF) refocusing pulses to produce a corresponding series of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin echo signals. A gradient waveform including a plurality of segments is generated. The plurality of segments collectively comprise a spiral ring retraced in-out trajectory. During an interval adjacent to each of the series of RF refocusing pulses, a first gradient pulse is generated according to the gradient waveform. The first gradient pulses encode the NMR spin echo signals. An image is then constructed from digitized samples of the NMR spin echo signals obtained based at least in part on the encoding.

MOTION COMPENSATION FOR MRI IMAGING

Training a neural network to correct motion-induced artifacts in magnetic resonance images includes acquiring motion-free magnetic resonance image (MRI) data of a target object and applying a spatial transformation matrix to the motion-free MRI data. Multiple frames of MRI data are produced having respective motion states. A Non-uniform Fast Fourier Transform (NUFFT) can be applied to generate respective k-space data sets corresponding to each of the multiple frames of MRI; the respective k-space data sets can be combined to produce a motion-corrupted k-space data set and an adjoint NUFFT can be applied to the motion-corrupted k-space data set. Updated frames of motion-corrupted MRI data can be formed. Using the updated frames of motion corrupted MRI data, a neural network can be trained that generates output frames of motion free MRI data; and the neural network can be saved.

System and method for magnetic resonance imaging

The present disclosure provides a system and method for magnetic resonance imaging. The method may include obtaining first k-space data collected from a subject in a non-Cartesian sampling manner. The method may also include generating second k-space data by regridding the first k-space data. The method may further include generating third k-space data by calibrating the second k-space data, wherein a calibrated field of view (FOV) corresponding to the third k-space data is constituted by a central portion of an intermediate FOV corresponding to the second k-space data. The method may still further include reconstructing, using at least one of a compressed sensing algorithm or a parallel imaging algorithm, a magnetic resonance (MR) image of the subject based at least in part on the third k-space data.

System and method for magnetic resonance imaging

The present disclosure provides a system and method for magnetic resonance imaging. The method may include obtaining first k-space data collected from a subject in a non-Cartesian sampling manner. The method may also include generating second k-space data by regridding the first k-space data. The method may further include generating third k-space data by calibrating the second k-space data, wherein a calibrated field of view (FOV) corresponding to the third k-space data is constituted by a central portion of an intermediate FOV corresponding to the second k-space data. The method may still further include reconstructing, using at least one of a compressed sensing algorithm or a parallel imaging algorithm, a magnetic resonance (MR) image of the subject based at least in part on the third k-space data.

ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF GRADIENT ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES
20230056449 · 2023-02-23 ·

Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300). The execution of machine executable instructions (120) causes a processor (104) to: receive (200) measured gradient echo k-space data (122); receive (202) an off-resonance phase map (124); reconstruct (204) an initial image (126) from the measured gradient echo k-space data; calculate (206) an upsampled phase map (128) from the off-resonance phase map; calculate (208) an upsampled image (130) from the initial image; calculating (210) a modulated image (132) by modulating the upsampled image with the upsampled phase map; calculate (212) a corrected image (134) comprising iteratively. The iterative calculation comprises: calculating (214) updated k-space data by applying a data consistency algorithm (138) to a k-space representation of the modulated image and the measured gradient echo k-space data and calculating (216) an updated image (142) from the updated k-space data. Calculation of the updated image comprises demodulation by the upsampled phase map and applying a smoothing algorithm.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM INCOMPLETE K-SPACE DATA
20230055826 · 2023-02-23 ·

Disclosed are deep learning based methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image reconstruction from partial Fourier-space (i.e., k-space) data, involving: obtaining high-quality complex MRI image data or fully-sampled k-space data as training data; training reconstruction models to predict high-quality complex MRI image data or complete k-space data from incomplete or partial k-space data; and applying trained models to reconstruct high-quality complex MRI image data or complete k-space data from partial k-space data.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM INCOMPLETE K-SPACE DATA
20230055826 · 2023-02-23 ·

Disclosed are deep learning based methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image reconstruction from partial Fourier-space (i.e., k-space) data, involving: obtaining high-quality complex MRI image data or fully-sampled k-space data as training data; training reconstruction models to predict high-quality complex MRI image data or complete k-space data from incomplete or partial k-space data; and applying trained models to reconstruct high-quality complex MRI image data or complete k-space data from partial k-space data.

CORRECTION OF NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE DATA IN HIGH VIBRATION ENVIRONMENTS
20220365242 · 2022-11-17 ·

Described herein are methods for removing the vibration induced additional signal obtained during downhole NMR operations. The additional signal is removed by analyzing a number of instances of data sets neighbors, at either the raw echo, reconstructed echoes, or the spectrum which results from inversion. A number of neighboring data instances are analyzed together to find the minimal (lowest) common values in each. Thereafter, the minimal value replaces the previous value across the data instances, thereby removing the extra signal.

System and method for MRI coil sensitivity estimation and reconstruction

A system is provided for MRI coil sensitivity estimation and reconstruction At least two cascades of regularization networks are serially connected such that the output of a cascade is used as input of a following cascade, at least two deepsets coil sensitivity map networks are serially connected such that the output of a deepsets coil sensitivity map network is used as input of a following deepsets coil sensitivity map network (CR), and wherein the outputs of the deepsets coil sensitivity map networks are also used as inputs for the cascades.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAXWELL COMPENSATION FOR SPIN-ECHO TRAIN IMAGING

Methods, computing devices, and MRI systems that reduce artifacts produced by Maxwell gradient terms in TSE imaging using non-rectilinear trajectories are disclosed. With this technology, a RF excitation pulse is generated to produce transverse magnetization that generates a NMR signal and a series of RF refocusing pulses to produce a corresponding series of NMR spin-echo signals. An original encoding gradient waveform comprising a non-rectilinear trajectory is modified by adjusting a portion of the original encoding gradient waveform or introducing a zero zeroth-moment waveform segment at end(s) of the original encoding gradient waveform. During an interval adjacent to each of the series of RF refocusing pulses a first gradient pulse is generated. At least one of the first gradient pulses is generated according to the modified gradient waveform. An image is constructed from generated digitized samples of the NMR spin-echo signals obtained.