Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and vibrational error magnetic field reduction method
- Patent Title (中): 磁共振成像装置和振动误差磁场还原法
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Application No.: US13817680Application Date: 2011-08-18
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Publication No.: US09453897B2Publication Date: 2016-09-27
- Inventor: Shouichi Miyawaki , Hiroyuki Takeuchi
- Applicant: Shouichi Miyawaki , Hiroyuki Takeuchi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Priority: JP2010-189068 20100826
- International Application: PCT/JP2011/068650 WO 20110818
- International Announcement: WO2012/026382 WO 20120301
- Main IPC: G01R33/58
- IPC: G01R33/58 ; G01R33/389 ; G01R33/565 ; A61B5/055

Abstract:
Regardless of the measurement conditions, the degradation of the image quality due to a vibrational error magnetic field, which is generated by the vibration of the mechanical structure of an MRI apparatus, is reduced. In order to do so, error magnetic field image data indicating an error magnetic field distribution is acquired on the basis of an echo signal measured using a pulse sequence having a test gradient magnetic field, a parameter value of a damped vibration function showing a vibrational error magnetic field is calculated using the error magnetic field image data, and a correction magnetic field is calculated on the basis of the calculated parameter value of the damped vibration function showing the vibrational error magnetic field.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130147481A1 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND VIBRATIONAL ERROR MAGNETIC FIELD REDUCTION METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-06-13
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