Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bone MRI using B0 inhomogeneity map and a subject magnetic susceptibility map
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Application No.: US15735314Application Date: 2016-06-07
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Publication No.: US10591562B2Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Peter Boernert , Kay Nehrke , Holger Eggers
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP15171882 20150612
- International Application: PCT/EP2016/062820 WO 20160607
- International Announcement: WO2016/198363 WO 20161215
- Main IPC: G01R33/00
- IPC: G01R33/00 ; G01R33/48 ; G01R33/44 ; G01R33/565 ; A61B5/055 ; G01R33/56 ; A61N5/10

Abstract:
The invention provides for a medical instrument (100, 500) comprising a magnetic resonance imaging system (102) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (142) from a subject (118) within an imaging zone (108). The magnetic resonance imaging system comprises: a main magnet (104) for generating a B0 magnetic field within the imaging zone; a memory (134, 136) containing machine executable instructions (160, 162, 164, 166) and pulse sequence commands (140); a processor (130) for controlling the medical instrument. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to: acquire (200) the magnetic resonance data by controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system with the pulse sequence commands; receive (202) a subject magnetic susceptibility map (144) of the subject; calculate (204) a B0 inhomogeneity map (146) from the magnetic resonance data; calculate (206) a subject B0 magnetic field perturbation (148) from the subject magnetic susceptibility map; calculate (208) a residual B0 magnetic field perturbation (150) by subtracting the subject B0 magnetic field perturbation from the B0 inhomogeneity map; and calculate (210) a bone map (152) from the residual B0 magnetic field perturbation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180180693A1 BONE MRI USING B0 INHOMOGENEITY MAP AND A SUBJECT MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY MAP Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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