Magnetic resonance imaging system

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2007-05-08

2011-10-04

Arana, Louis (Department: 2858)

Electricity: measuring and testing

Particle precession resonance

Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system

C324S309000

Reexamination Certificate

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08030924

ABSTRACT:
A magnetic resonance imaging system capable of conducting spectroscopic imaging with an improved SNR without degrading the spatial resolution includes edge-preserving filter processing means for spectroscopic imaging. The edge-preserving filter processing means executes processing including the steps of calculating spectral similarity in spatial neighborhoods (spatially neighboring voxels) at each voxel in spectroscopic imaging data, calculating a spectral weight according to the spectral similarity, and conducting weighted smoothing for compounding spectra of spatial neighborhoods (spatially neighboring voxels) according to the spectral weight.

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