Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
Patent
1998-04-09
1999-11-30
Oda, Christine
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
324309, 324314, 600414, 436173, G01V 300
Patent
active
059949023
ABSTRACT:
Chemical shift imaging with spectrum modeling (CSISM) models the general chemical shift spectrum as a system with N distinct peaks with known resonant frequencies and unknown amplitudes. Based on the N peak spectrum model, a set of nonlinear complex equations is set up that contains N+1 unknowns of two kdnds: the magnitudes of the N peaks, and a phasor map caused by main magnetic field inhomogeneity. Using these equations, the timing parameters for shifting the 180.degree. RF refocusing pulses for acquiring spin-echo images are optimally chosen. Corresponding timing parameters for other pulse sequences can also be optimized similarly. Using the chosen timing parameters, a plurality of images are acquired. Next, acquired image data are automatically processed to solve the complex linear equations. First, the phasor map is found by fitting various phasor map values over a small number of pixels, or "seeds", that are picked sparsely in a field of view. Second, from the original "seeds", the region of pixels that are picked to find the best-fit phasor map is grown into the entire field of view, based on a predetermined phase difference between the original seed and a neighboring pixel. The optimal phasor map value is then entered into the complex linear equations to derive the only unknown values at this point--the peak amplitudes. Optionally, second pass solutions of the peak amplitudes may be obtained using a smoothed phasor map value. When the equations are solved, the spectroscopic images are output.
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An Li
Xiang Qing-San
Oda Christine
Shrivastav Bry B.
The University of British Columbia
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