Invention Application
- Patent Title: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION METHOD, AND SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION PROGRAM
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Application No.: US16771449Application Date: 2018-09-13
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Publication No.: US20210068700A1Publication Date: 2021-03-11
- Inventor: Toru SHIRAI , Yasuhiro KAMADA , Masahiro TAKIZAWA , Hisaaki OCHI
- Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Priority: JP2018-053210 20180320
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/034007 WO 20180913
- Main IPC: A61B5/055
- IPC: A61B5/055 ; G01R33/34 ; G01R33/54 ; G01R33/48

Abstract:
To calculate a high-resolution coil sensitivity distribution that does not depend on a shape or a structure of a subject with high accuracy. An MRI apparatus of the invention includes: a measurement unit that includes a reception coil including a plurality of channels, a measurement unit that measures a nuclear magnetic resonance signal of a subject for every channel of the reception coil; and an image computation unit that creates an image of the subject by using a sensitivity distribution for every channel of the reception coil, and a channel image obtained from the nuclear magnetic resonance signal measured by the measurement unit for every channel. The image computation unit includes a sensitivity distribution calculation unit that calculates a sensitivity distribution on a k-space for every channel by using the channel images and a composite image obtained by combining the channel images.
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