Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for performing diffusion spectrum imaging
- Patent Title (中): 用于进行扩散光谱成像的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13077517Application Date: 2011-03-31
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Publication No.: US08922210B2Publication Date: 2014-12-30
- Inventor: Luca Marinelli , Kevin King , Christopher Hardy , Marion Menzel
- Applicant: Luca Marinelli , Kevin King , Christopher Hardy , Marion Menzel
- Applicant Address: US NY Niskayuna
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Niskayuna
- Agent Melissa K. Dobson
- Main IPC: G01V3/00
- IPC: G01V3/00 ; G01R33/563 ; G01R33/561

Abstract:
A method of generating a magnetic resonance (MR) image of a tissue includes acquiring MR signals at undersampled q-space encoding locations for a plurality of q-space locations that is less than an entirety of the q-space locations sampled at the Nyquist rate, wherein the acquired signal at the q-space locations represents the three-dimensional displacement distribution of the spins in the imaging voxel, synthesizing the MR signal for the entirety of q-space encodings using a compressed sensing technique for a portion of q-space locations at which MR data was not acquired, combining the acquired MR signals at q-space encodings and the synthesized MR signals at q-space encodings to generate a set of MR signals at q-space encodings that are evenly distributed in q-space, using the set of MR signals at q-space encodings to generate a function that represents a displacement probability distribution function of the set of spins in the imaging voxel, and generating an image of the tissue based on at least a portion of the generated function. A system and computer readable medium are also described herein.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120249136A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DIFFUSION SPECTRUM IMAGING Public/Granted day:2012-10-04
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