Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
Patent
1992-08-10
1995-04-11
Arana, Louis
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
324307, G01V 300
Patent
active
054062039
ABSTRACT:
An optimized multislice data acquisition method and apparatus for magnetic resonance imaging is disclosed. In this new method, instead of forming a set of multislice image sequences in series for a given phase encoding step, initiation sequences corresponding to different slices are interwoven with acquisition sequences in an optimal way depending on the desired initiation sequence time. A number of acquisition and initiation sequences are inserted with different slice combinations, between the initiation sequence and acquisition sequence, i.e., long initiation sequence time is effectively utilized for the other slice data acquisition. With this optimized method, imaging time can be reduced by as much as a factor of four compared to existing methods.
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Hilal Sadek K.
Oh Chang-Hyun
Arana Louis
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
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