Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
Patent
1995-08-17
1997-02-11
O'Shea, Sandra L.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
G01R 3320
Patent
active
056024762
ABSTRACT:
In a magnetic resonance imaging system, a read gradient scaler (102) scales the amplitude and width of read gradients (78, 82, 84). A sampling rate control (104) controls the sampling rate of the resonance signals received from corresponding magnetic resonance echoes (80 54, 86). For example, when the amplitude of the gradient pulse is doubled and its width halved, the sampling rate of the resultant magnetic resonance signal is doubled, e.g., from a bandwidth of 32 MHz to a bandwidth of 64 MHz. In this manner, some echoes are read-out over a longer period of time with a lower bandwidth to produce lower signal-to-noise data lines; whereas, other echoes are much shorter and are read-out more quickly, but with a lower signal-to-noise ratio. The phase-encoding gradients (74, 88, 90) are controlled (70) such that the resultant data lines with the lowest bandwidth have the lowest phase-encoding angles closest to the zero phase-encoding and the data lines with the highest bandwidth have the highest phase-encoding angles closest to the negative and positive maximum phase-encoding gradients. The data lines are sorted (110) by phase encode angle and bandwidth and reconstructed (120) into an image representation.
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Gullapalli Rao P.
Liu Haiying
Loncar Mark J.
Mah Raymond Y.
O'Shea Sandra L.
Picker International Inc.
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