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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188736 | PET/MR scanners for simultaneous PET and MR imaging In a combined system, a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner includes a magnet (10, 110) configured to generate a static magnetic field (B0) at least in a MR examination region (12) from which MR data are acquired. Radiation detectors (40, 41, 140... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8183865 | Magnetic resonance system and method for correction of movement artifacts In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) for correction of movement in the acquisition of MR images of an examination region, wherein the movement that occurs between the acquisition of data of spatially different slices of the examination region is taken into accoun... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183866 | Magnetic resonance tomography method and apparatus with separation of fat and water images according to the two-point dixon method dependent on Tdecay In a magnetic resonance tomography method and apparatus for separation of fat and water images according to the two-point Dixon method dependent on the T*2 decay, the following steps are implemented: (S1) acquire three fat-water images, respectivel... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8169218 | Methods and apparatus for non-contrast enhanced pulmonary magnetic resonance imaging In one aspect, a method of inducing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals from a region of an object having at least a portion of at least one pulmonary vein using at least one coil adapted to emit electromagnetic signals to induce an NMR effect is provided. The ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164334 | Position detection system A position detection system that does not require calibration measurement to be performed in advance and reduces the work required for detecting a position and so on is provided. The provided position detection system includes a device having a magnetic inductance c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164335 | Method for acquiring and displaying medical image data A method is disclosed for acquiring and displaying image data, in particular MR image data. In at least one embodiment, the method includes scanning an examination object by way of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner and generating first (MR) image data of the exam... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159222 | Method for radio-frequency nuclear magnetic resonance imaging Accumulated spin magnetization phase within a RF MRI procedure can be used for providing an orderly k-space traversal. By operating a transmit array adapted to produce two B1 fields in alternation, where the B1 fields are substantially uniform in amplitude over a sa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154284 | Hyperpolaritzation of compounds for NMR, in particular by means of PHIP An NMR method is presented having enhanced sensitivity on a compound comprising hyperpolarizable nuclei, in particular applying enhanced PHIP. Polarization is thereby transferred from a prepared fluid, which is enriched with symmetric molecules of a particular spin ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154287 | System and method for ghost magnetic resonance imaging A system and method enables the creation of medical images using data related to ghost artifacts. The method thus allows components of an imaged subject to be segmented based on state changes in the components that lead to the controlled production of ghost artifact... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154288 | Method, processor, and magnetic resonance apparatus for selective presentation of lung movement In a method for selective presentation of a movement of the lung, magnetic resonance images (MR images) of the lung are acquired in a temporal progression, i.e. MR images of the lung are acquired over multiple breathing cycles. The acquired MR images are registered ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154285 | Non-external static magnetic field imaging systems, devices, methods, and compositions Magnetic resonance systems, devices, methods, and compositions are provided. Further provided are systems, devices, methods, and compositions for obtaining magnetic resonance information of a region within a biological subject without the need or use of an external-... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154286 | Apparatus and method for decreasing bio-effects of magnetic fields A magnetic field generator includes a power source and a coil connected to the power source to generate a time-varying magnetic field. Energy is applied to the coil so that the coil generates a time-varying magnetic field gradient with a magnitude of at least 1 mill... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148981 | MRI apparatus and MRI method for SSFP with center frequency and 1st order gradient moments zeroed A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an input unit, a data acquisition unit and an image generating unit. The input unit inputs information indicating a matter of which resonance frequency is a center frequency of an excitation pulse. The data acquisition... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148985 | Method for reducing maximum local specific absorption rate in magnetic resonance imaging A method for reducing maximum local specific absorption rate (“SAR”) in a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system is disclosed. More specifically, a plurality of candidate radio frequency (“RF”) pulses are designed and the manner in which they are appl... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148983 | Method for calibration of a magnetic resonance acquisition channel, calibration data determination device and magnetic resonance system In a method for calibration of a magnetic resonance acquisition channel having a magnetic resonance acquisition antenna in a magnetic resonance system, in a test signal is emitted by the transmission antenna in the magnetic resonance system and is received by the ac... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148982 | Spin locked balanced steady-state free precession (slSSFP) with off-resonance spin locked pulses interleaved with imaging gradients A spin locked balanced steady-state free precession (slSSFP) pulse sequence combines a balanced gradient echo acquisition with an off-resonance spin lock pulse for fast MRI. The transient and steady-state magnetization trajectory is solved numerically using the Bloc... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148984 | Method for magnitude constrained phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging A method for magnitude constrained phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is provided. The method utilizes an assumption that the image magnitude is shared across a series of images reconstructed from a set of phase contrast enhanced k-space data. In this m... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143890 | Spectral resolution enhancement of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging A method and apparatus for enhancing the spectral resolution of magnetic resonance spectroscopic (MRS) measurements include receiving time domain echo data from an MRS measurement for an MRS volume in a subject. Also received are high spatial resolution complex sign... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143892 | System and methods for active suppression of superior tagging in flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery Apparatuses, systems, and methods for suppression of venous artifacts from superior tagging in flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery. The systems may include an image capture device and a controller. The controller may be configured to cause the image captur... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143889 | Simultaneous acquisitions of spin- and stimulated-echo planar imaging The disclosure provides echo planar imaging (EPI) based single-shot imaging techniques for acquiring spin-EPI (SEPI) and stimulated-EPI after a single RF excitation. In certain embodiments, the SEPI and STEPI acquired in a singleshot are used to compute a T1 | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143891 | System for image acquisition with fast magnetic resonance gradient echo sequences A system uses a three-dimensional spoiled gradient recalled echo sequence for fat suppression with reduced total acquisition time suitable for acquiring image data under breath-hold conditions using a reversed asymmetry during data acquisition on an opposed phase ec... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138759 | System for adjusting a magnetic field for MR and other use An MR magnetic field inhomogeneity compensation system acquires multiple MR data sets representing luminance intensity values of individual image elements comprising corresponding multiple different image versions of at least a portion of a first imaging slice of pa... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125223 | Segmenting infarct in diffusion-weighted imaging volume Methods (2900), apparatuses (3000), and computer program products for segmenting an infarct in a diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) volume are disclosed. A Region of Interest in at least one slice of the DWI volume is selected (2912). The ROI comp... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120360 | System and method of angular elliptic centric view ordering for 3D MR acquisitions A method of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging includes segmenting a ky-kz plane comprising a plurality of encoding points into a plurality of annular segments. For each annular segment, a view ordering is defined based on a polar angle associated... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120358 | Magnetic resonance imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution Methods, systems, and apparatus for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are described. In one example, the method includes applying a sample-selective magnetic field gradient sequence along a slice direction to partition responses from a sample under magnetic resonance... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120359 | Magnetic resonance apparatus and method for determining a pulse sequence to feed an RF radiating coil In a magnetic resonance apparatus having an RF radiating coil and gradient coils, and in a method for operating such a magnetic resonance apparatus, a pulse sequence, composed of multiple time steps, is specified for operating the gradient coils to time-dependently ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115483 | Method and device for field quality testing of a magnetic resonance antenna In a method and device for field quality testing of a magnetic resonance antenna arrangement of a magnetic resonance system composed of multiple antenna elements, a test signal is fed into the respective antenna elements by a transmission antenna and the test signal... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115482 | Magnetic resonance anatomical image generating method and system In a method to generate an anatomical image of an examination area with a magnetic resonance apparatus as well as computer program and magnetic resonance apparatus for implementation of the method, at least one image data set of the examination area and a parameter ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115484 | Method and device to generate a measurement sequence for operating a magnetic resonance system that is adapted to the time raster of the system In a method for producing a time raster-adapted measurement sequence that can be executed directly in the time raster of a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner, for a measurement sequence composed of a series of time slices that in their entirety represent the measuremen... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111070 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging condition acquisition unit and an imaging unit. The imaging condition acquisition unit acquires at least one of optimum amplitude and optimum phase of a radio frequency transmission signal so as to reduce a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111069 | Magnetic resonance system and operating method with compensation of second-order maxwell terms A magnetic resonance system has a basic magnet system that generates a temporally static, spatially homogeneous basic magnetic field in an examination volume of the magnetic resonance system, and a radio-frequency system. An overlay system generates overlay fields i... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102176 | NMR device for detection of analytes This invention relates generally to detection devices having one or more small wells each surrounded by, or in close proximity to, an NMR micro coil, each well containing a liquid sample with magnetic nanoparticles that self-assemble or disperse in the presence of a... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098068 | Systems and methods for parametric mapping for correction of noise-based systematic bias of DTI metrics, using a DTI mapping phantom A system and method for minimizing, if not completely eliminating, the systematic bias present in an MR system used for DTI is disclosed. A test object or “phantom” of the present invention is scanned with a desired DTI protocol. The eigenvalues measured with th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8093896 | Uniform magnetic field spherical coil for MRI The present invention relates to a spherical design for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coil to provide a compact and light-weight highly uniform magnetic field for a variety of medical imaging applications. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides a tran... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093897 | Method of detecting carrier spin polarisation and apparatus for the same A method of detecting spin polarization in a subject material comprises applying a potential difference across the subject material causing an electrical current to flow across the material, thereby inducing carrier polarization within the material in a direction pe... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089279 | Method for operating a hybrid medical imaging unit comprising a first imaging device of high spatial resolution and a second nuclear medicine imaging device of high sensitivity A method is disclosed for operating a hybrid medical imaging unit including a first imaging device of relatively high spatial resolution and a second nuclear medicine imaging device of relatively high sensitivity that respectively acquire imaging measurement signals... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085043 | Method for image data acquisition with a magnetic resonance device In a method for image data acquisition of a region of interest in a subject with a magnetic resonance device, wherein, to establish the field of view, a minimal geometric shape encompassing the subject to be acquired and/or the surface of the subject is determined a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085046 | Coil array mode compression for parallel transmission magnetic resonance imaging A method for target-dependent, sparsity-enforced selection for choosing a substantially optimal connection of radiofrequency (“RF”) transmitters to the elements of the RF coil array is provided. In particular, a method is provided that selects the linear combina... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085044 | Method for producing spectral-spatial parallel RF excitation pulses for magnetic resonance imaging A method for producing a spatially and spectrally selective radiofrequency (“RF”) excitation pulse includes establishing a desired spatial RF excitation pattern and establishing a desired spectral RF excitation pattern. The method also includes estimating an RF ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085045 | Magnetic resonance apparatus and method to acquire and display calibration images In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus to acquire and present calibration images of a periodically moving organ with the use of magnetic resonance technology, calibration images are acquired by acquiring measurement data for multiple calibration images during ... | 12/27/2011 |
