Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1996-06-14
1998-03-03
Smith, Ruth S.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
1286535, 324309, 324318, 324322, A61B 5055
Patent
active
057224102
ABSTRACT:
A surface coil (26) is positioned against a subject in the image region to detect emanating radio frequency resonance signals. The detected signals are processed (52) into a magnetic resonance images representing the image region which include an image value for each of an array of pixel coordinates. There is a large change in magnitude between image values of pixels corresponding to the coil and adjacent pixels. Magnitudes and directions of pixel value change gradients are calculated (60) from the image values corresponding to pixels in each of a first set of magnetic resonance image slices representing axial and transaxial slices through the surface coil. A coordinate calculator (62) calculates image region coordinates corresponding to segments of the surface coil. From the image region coordinates of the surface coil segments, a surface coil sensitivity calculator (92) calculates coil sensitivity which is in turn used to enhance (94) the reconstructed images.
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Smith Ruth S.
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