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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8030924 | Magnetic resonance imaging system A magnetic resonance imaging system capable of conducting spectroscopic imaging with an improved SNR without degrading the spatial resolution includes edge-preserving filter processing means for spectroscopic imaging. The edge-preserving filter processing means exec... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7906965 | Methods and apparatuses for estimating the elliptical cone of uncertainty A magnetic resonance imaging scanner acquires diffusion-weighted imaging data. A reconstruction engine reconstructs the acquired diffusion-weighted imaging data into diffusion-weighted image representations. A diffusion tensor engine constructs a diffusion tensor ma... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7772847 | Method and apparatus of MR imaging with two dimensional phase and magnitude correction Phase and magnitude correction is performed in two dimensions to reduce ghosting in single shot and multi-shot EPI scans. First, a phase/magnitude correction in the readout direction is carried out to reduce echo shifts and gradient waveform distortions. Then, a two... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7642778 | MRI apparatus An MRI apparatus for performing an MRI examination to an object by sequentially applying an imaging method group, which is constituted by time-sequentially arranging a plurality of different imaging methods, to each of the imaging methods, has an imaging method grou... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7619411 | Generalized method for MRI chemical species separation using arbitrary k-space trajectories A method for producing images of a subject containing M spin species using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes obtaining N k-space data matrices from N k-space data sets acquired with the MRI system using a pulse sequence with an individual associated... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7538550 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging method, scan apparatus, program and storage medium With the objective of reducing the number of times that RF pulse are idle-shot during an idling time upon executing an SSFP pulse sequence by a phase cycling method and thereby performing imaging efficiently, the angle of the phase of each RF pulse is changed during... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7511496 | Quadrupole resonance using narrowband probes and continuous wave excitation The use of a superconducting resonator with continuous-wave (CW) excitation allows low-noise quadrupole resonance (QR) detection without the need for a lock-in amplifier. This allows detection times to be greatly reduced. Hence, for the first time, a CW QR spectrome... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7429860 | Noise reduction for spectroscopic signal processing A windowed noise reduction technique is presented that allows a noise-reduced spectrum of satisfactory accuracy to be recovered from original noisy spectroscopic data, while acquiring a significantly reduced number of transient acquisitions. The signal-averaged, dec... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7418287 | Magnetic resonance imaging method with accelerated data acquisition A method of dynamic magnetic resonance imaging comprising acquiring undersampled magnetic resonance signals for successive temporal time slots. In a space spanned by geometrical space and temporal frequency and on the basic of a priori information the aliased differ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7375520 | Method for spectrally selective B1 insensitive T2 preparation contrast enhancement for high field magnetic resonance imaging A T2 preparation sequence uses a segmented BIR-4 adiabatic pulse with two substantially equal delays and is insensitive to B1 field variations and can simultaneously suppress fat signals with low specific absorption rate (SAR). An adiabatic rev... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372265 | Compensation of magnetic field disturbances due to vibrations in an MRI system A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes an examination volume (9), a main magnet system (17) for generating a main magnetic field (B0) in the examination volume, a gradient magnet system (25) for generating gradients of the... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366358 | Method of and system for generating image signal An original image including therein a predetermined periodic pattern is read out by sampling the original image at a frequency higher than a desired sampling frequency, and an initial image signal is thus obtained. The initial image signal is then re-sampled at the ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358728 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging data processing method A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus 20 includes a phase difference calculation unit 44 configured to perform a one-dimensional Fourier transform on complex data not phase-encoded extracted from complex data of a nuclear resonant signal collected by ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359745 | Method to correct magnetic field/phase variations in proton resonance frequency shift thermometry in magnetic resonance imaging PRF shift MRI data is acquired. The PRF shift MRI data may include signals affected by both a desired PRF shift and an undesired PRF shift. Thus, example systems and methods describe manipulating the PRF shift MR! data to make it substantially free of the effects of... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7348775 | Method for automatic shimming for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy A method for homogenizing a static magnetic field with a magnetic field distribution B0(r) for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy by adjusting the currents Ci through the shim coils, thus creating spatial field distributions Ci·S | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339377 | Methods and devices for analysis of sealed containers This invention provides methods, NMR probes, and NMR systems for the analysis of the contents of sealed food and beverage containers and the like. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336986 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus An apparatus includes acquiring means for acquiring echo data of a plurality of views in which a phase difference between water and fat is 2π/m with spins within a subject brought to the SSFP state and repeating the acquisition for k=0 through M−1 with a step dif... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330575 | Determination of subencoding MRI coil sensitivities in a lower order magnetic field A novel magnetic resonance imaging method is presented for forming an image of an object from a plurality of signals acquired by an array of receiver antennae, whereas prior to imaging a sensitivity map of each of the receiver antennae is provided, at least two adja... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330028 | Apparatus and method of simultaneous fat suppression, magnetization transfer contrast, and spatial saturation for 3D time-of-flight imaging A pulse sequence for time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) includes a fatsat segment, a magnetization transfer segment, and a spatial saturation segment that are applied by an MR apparatus to acquire MR data for image reconstruction with improved... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327141 | Characterization of receiver demodulation for correcting off-axis MR imaging degradation A calibration procedure is performed prior to an off-axis MR scan to measure the MRI system timing errors in applying a frequency modulation waveform to the system receiver. Phase errors which otherwise occur when performing non-Cartesian scans are either prospectiv... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7288937 | Image generating method and MRI apparatus A method of generating an MR image based on respective data obtained by n (≧2) coils, respective low resolution images are generated using partial data in a low frequency region for the data obtained by the n coils. The intensities and phases of the low resolution... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283859 | Artifact suppression in dynamic magnetic resonance imaging A method for removing one or more artifacts from a time series of magnetic resonance (MR) images is provided. In one embodiment of the invention, an MR time series of data sets is acquired while changing the k-space that is sampled at each time frame. By using the a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7279892 | Calibrating method for artifact-reduced MRT imaging when there is FOV displacement The present invention relates generally to nuclear magnetic resonance tomography (synonym: magnetic resonance tomography—MRT) as used in medical applications for examining patients; it relates in particular to a calibrating method when there is FOV displacement wi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277807 | Method for processing a set of spectra, particularly NMR spectra A method for processing a set of spectra, particularly NMR spectra, by selecting a principle spectral range, recording a plurality of principle spectra in the principal spectral range, obtaining a reference principal spectrum in the principal spectral range, carryin... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7259557 | Method and apparatus of echo planar imaging with real-time determination of phase correction coefficients The present invention provides an apparatus and method of phase correction whereby changes in phase characteristics are measured during data acquisition and, accordingly, phase correction parameters that are applied during image reconstruction are updated in real-ti... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256579 | Method for imaging biological matter using an adiabatic pulse The present invention includes a method for MR imaging of a biological matter having H2O17 content by performing T1ρoff imaging of said H2O17 content in said biological matter. The T1ρ | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254623 | Method and apparatus for reducing x-ray dosage in CT imaging prescription The present invention is directed to a networked scanner environment wherein each scanner is communicatable with one or more databases configured to store data associated with previously executed imaging sessions. The one or more databases may be queried by a user t... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7242402 | Method of visualization of a part of a three-dimensional image The invention concerns a method of visualization of a part of a three-dimensional image. The part is defined by a finite predetermined volume, a sphere, for example, the center of which is located on an element of interest present in the three-dimensional image. In ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236816 | Biopsy and sampling needle antennas for magnetic resonance imaging-guided biopsies Herein is disclosed a magnetic resonance imaging antenna, including an inner conductor, an outer shield slideably displaceable with respect to the inner conductor, and an insulator electrically insulating the inner conductor from the outer shield. Herein is disclose... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7215190 | Magnetic resonance imaging method involving sub-sampling In a magnetic resonance imaging method magnetic resonance signal samples are received for a predetermined field of view by a receiving antenna having a spatial sensitivity profile. The sampling in the k space corresponds to the predetermined field of view in the geo... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215119 | Method and MR apparatus for dynamic frequency detection in MR spectroscopy In a method for dynamic frequency detection of the resonance frequency in magnetic resonance spectroscopy, by measuring navigator signals at the same point in time in each of a number of successive sequence passes, and by comparing the navigator signals, a frequency... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7205763 | Movement-corrected multi-shot method for diffusion-weighted imaging in magnetic resonance tomography In a multi-shot method for diffusion-weighted imaging in magnetic resonance tomography, the sampling of the k-matrix in the readout direction ensues in segments, and immediately after acquisition of an image data set by readout of one segment by means of echo signal... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7191301 | ROM addressing method for an ADPCM decoder implementation A micro-controller is connected between a hardware-based adaptive differential pulse code modulation (ADPCM) decoder and a read only memory (ROM) storing both micro-controller programming instructions and ADPCM encoded source file data. A micro-controller architectu... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180293 | MRI apparatus For the purpose of providing an MRI apparatus which gives rise to no phase deviation due to frequency alteration of the RF magnetic field and signals for detection use, the MRI apparatus includes: signal collecting means which detects and collects magnetic resonance... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7170288 | Parametric nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy system and method A system and method for probing a specimen to determine one or more components by utilizing a first signal to excite the specimen at a nuclear quadrupole resonant frequency and observing changes in a specimen property. One exemplary property may be dielectric consta... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170290 | Systems and methods for generating a magnetic resonance image based on a difference between a plurality of signals An MRI method comprising preparing at least two pulse sequence databases (PSDs) assumed to have the same echo time (TE) and different repetition times (TR), driving a magnet system of an MRI apparatus in accordance with the two PSDs and collecting MR signals at that... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7154268 | Method and apparatus to improve an MRI image using regularization An MRI imaging system includes at least one processor and a plurality of coils to acquire a plurality of k-space samples of a target to image. The system includes a machine-readable media comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, result in deter... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7135862 | NMR logging using time-domain averaging Method for data acquisition and processing, which uses time-domain averaging to increase the signal to noise ratio (SNR) in single-event measurements. In a preferred embodiment, NMR echo-trains obtained using high-speed NMR logging are provided, the echo trains are ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7126332 | Downhole high resolution NMR spectroscopy with polarization enhancement An apparatus and method is discussed for characterizing a fluid sample downhole of aliphatic hydrocarbon compounds, aromatic hydrocarbon compound, or connate mud filtrates containing carbon-13 isotopes using an enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal on a m... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126336 | Nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus having a controllable detector In an NMR apparatus having an analog-to-digital converter for converting the voltage signal V(t) to a digital signal, a reference signal generator for generating reference waves which are digital signals, and a quadrature detector for performing a quadrature detecti... | 10/24/2006 |
