Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
Patent
1996-11-27
1998-10-20
Arana, Louis M.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
324307, G01V 300
Patent
active
058251855
ABSTRACT:
A transmitter (24) and gradient amplifiers (20) transmit radio frequency excitation and other pulses to induce magnetic resonance in selected magnetic dipoles and cause the magnetic resonance to be focused into a series of echoes (66) at each of a plurality of preselected echo positions following each excitation. A receiver (38) converts each echo into a data line. Calibration data lines having a close to zero phase-encoding are collected and used to generate correction parameters (102) for each of the echo positions. These parameters include relative echo center positions (96) and unitary complex correction vectors (106). The calibration data lines for each of the preselected positions are one-dimensionally Fourier transformed (82) and multiplied (90) by the same complex conjugate reference echo (80). These data lines are then inverse Fourier transformed (92) to generate an auxiliary data array (94). A relative echo center position is computed (96) which represents a fractional shift of the true center relative to the reference echo. A complex sum is computed (104) from the relative echo center position and normalized (106) to generate a unitary correction vector. The phase-correction parameters are used to phase-correct (116) imaging data lines. The phase-corrected imaging data lines are sorted (122) to build an image plane which is one-dimensionally Fourier transformed (128) in the phase-encoding direction to produce a final corrected image (130) for display on a monitor (134).
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Bearden Francis H.
DeMeester Gordon D.
Liu Haiying
Arana Louis M.
Picker International Inc.
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