Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-26
2006-12-26
Shrivastav, Brij B. (Department: 2859)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
C324S318000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07154268
ABSTRACT:
An MRI imaging system includes at least one processor and a plurality of coils to acquire a plurality of k-space samples of a target to image. The system includes a machine-readable media comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, result in determining a plurality of different regularization matrices for a plurality of different regions of an image of the target. The regularization matrices are applied in the determination of a plurality of unmixing matrices for the regions. The unmixing matrices are applied to produce the image without ghost artifacts, from a plurality of MRI images produced from the plurality of k-space samples and each comprising ghost artifacts.
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Kellman Peter
McVeigh Elliot
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
Shrivastav Brij B.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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