Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
Patent
1996-04-25
1997-09-30
O'Shea, Sandra L.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
G01R 3320
Patent
active
056729693
ABSTRACT:
In a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, a method is provided for reducing oblique Nyquist ghost artifact in an image produced by an oblique EPI scan. Prior to commencing the EPI scan, referencing pre-scans are conducted to generate pre-scan echo trains respectively corresponding to the physical gradient axes. Distortion compensating parameters are derived from the pre-scan echo trains for reducing Nyquist ghost by alternatively modifying the data acquisitions stage of the oblique EPI scan, or the post-data acquisition image processing stage thereof. In one mode of operation, the pre-scan echo trains are generated while a subject is in the MRI system. In another mode of operation, pre-scan echo trains are generated while no subject is present in the MR system, so that the distortion compensating parameters represent characteristics of the MR system only, and thus may be used for EPI scans of different protocols. For such mode of operation the distortion compensating parameters may be computed as a function of readout gradient pulse spacing.
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Epstein Frederick H.
Maier Joseph K.
Zhou Xiaohong
General Electric Company
Mah Raymond Y.
O'Shea Sandra L.
Pilarski John H.
Skarsten James O.
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