The disclosure provides a modified EPI sequence for acquiring multi-shot and multi-echo images with interleaved blip-up and blip-down phase encoding; the blip-up and blip-down images are processed by topup in FSL to estimate the inhomogeneous main magnetic field B.sub.0 map that causes image distortions; the B.sub.0 map is then incorporated into the encoding matrix with a low rank constraint to form a joint reconstruction model; the joint reconstruction model is solved to obtain multiple distortion-free images; and the multiple distortion-free images are matched to dictionary to simultaneous acquire the quantitative T.sub.2 (=1/R.sub.2) and T.sub.2* (=1/R.sub.2*) maps. In the phantom and in-vivo measurements, the disclosed method rapidly acquires the comparable quantitative images within one hold-breath (for 20 s) to the conventional mapping method, thus providing important practical application value for evaluation of liver damage, iron level and cancer lesion.

The present invention relates to a medical apparatus which includes a motion mechanism which has at least one degree of freedom, an actuator configured to drive the motion mechanism and a control unit configured to control the actuator, and which operates in a magnetic field environment of an MRI, the medical apparatus including: a data storage unit in which data related to magnetic susceptibility of the actuator is stored; a calculating unit configured to calculate information related to an influence which the actuator exerts upon the magnetic field environment by calculation based on the magnetic susceptibility; and a communication unit configured to output the information to the MRI. An influence which an apparatus which operates in a strong magnetic field environment exerts upon an MR image can be reduced.

The present invention provides a medical image guidance marker to be placed in a body, adapted to be applicable to at least all three types of imaging modalities, namely, MRI, ultrasound, and CT, and to minimize the occurrence of artifacts. The present invention provides a medical image guidance marker to be placed in a body. The medical image guidance marker is made of an alloy with a magnetic susceptibility in the range from −13 ppm to −5 ppm and has a shape of a coil. The coil is formed of a wire with a wire diameter of not less than 0.15 mm and not more than 0.45 mm and has a coil diameter of not less than 0.55 mm and not more than 1.20 mm, and the pitch of the coil is not less than 0.3 mm and not more than 1.5 mm and is not less than 1.8 times and not more than 4 times the wire diameter.

Disclosed is a quantitative susceptibility mapping image processing method using an unsupervised learning-based neural network and an apparatus therefor. The quantitative susceptibility mapping image processing method includes receiving a phase image and a magnitude image for reconstructing the quantitative susceptibility mapping image, and reconstructing the quantitative susceptibility mapping image corresponding to the received phase image and the received magnitude image using an unsupervised learning-based neural network, and the neural network may be generated based on an optimal transport theory.

Exemplary quantitative susceptibility mapping methods, systems and computer-accessible medium can be provided to generate images of tissue magnetism property from complex magnetic resonance imaging data using the Bayesian inference approach, which minimizes a cost function consisting of a data fidelity term and two regularization terms. The data fidelity term is constructed directly from the complex magnetic resonance imaging data. The first prior is constructed from matching structures or information content in known morphology. The second prior is constructed from a region having an approximately homogenous and known susceptibility value and a characteristic feature on anatomic images. The quantitative susceptibility map can be determined by minimizing the cost function. Thus, according to the exemplary embodiment, system, method and computer-accessible medium can be provided for determining magnetic susceptibility information associated with at least one structure.

Exemplary quantitative susceptibility mapping methods, systems and computer-accessible medium can be provided to generate images of tissue magnetism property from complex magnetic resonance imaging data using the Bayesian inference approach, which minimizes a cost function consisting of a data fidelity term and two regularization terms. The data fidelity term is constructed directly from the complex magnetic resonance imaging data. The first prior is constructed from matching structures or information content in known morphology. The second prior is constructed from a region having an approximately homogenous and known susceptibility value and a characteristic feature on anatomic images. The quantitative susceptibility map can be determined by minimizing the cost function. Thus, according to the exemplary embodiment, system, method and computer-accessible medium can be provided for determining magnetic susceptibility information associated with at least one structure.

An implantable array suitable for being placed in anatomic tissue of a human or animal body is provided. The implantable array has a substrate and a reference structure, the reference structure being formed by a number of notches arranged in at least one outer edge of the substrate, the reference structure defines a spatial relationship with predefined points of the array.

A shimming method and device, an electronic device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The shimming method includes: obtaining object static magnetic field distribution information corresponding to a target object, the object static magnetic field distribution information including the static magnetic field distribution information of the target object under the action of a main magnet of a magnetic resonance system; determining a target static magnetic field based on the object static magnetic field distribution information and a preset shim coil magnetic field distribution model; and adjusting at least one shim coil parameter in the shim coil magnetic field distribution model until a magnetic field uniformity of the target static magnetic field satisfies a preset condition, and accordingly obtaining at least one target shim coil parameter.

An imaging system and method are disclosed. An MR image and measured B0 field map of a target volume in a subject are reconstructed, where the MR image includes one or more bright and/or dark regions. One or more distinctive constituent materials corresponding to the bright regions are identified. Each dark region is iteratively labeled as one or more ambiguous constituent materials. Susceptibility values corresponding to each distinctive and iteratively labeled ambiguous constituent material is assigned. A simulated B0 field map is iteratively generated based on the assigned susceptibility values. A similarity metric is determined between the measured and simulated B0 field maps. Constituent materials are identified in the dark regions based on the similarity metric to ascertain corresponding susceptibility values. The MRI data is corrected based on the assigned and ascertained susceptibility values. A diagnostic assessment of the target volume is determined based on the corrected MRI data.

Improved magnetic resonance imaging systems, methods and software are described including a low field strength main magnet, a gradient coil assembly, an RF coil system, and a control system configured for the acquisition and processing of magnetic resonance imaging data from a patient while utilizing a sparse sampling imaging technique.