SEGMENTATION OF QUANTITATIVE SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES

    公开(公告)号:EP3391069A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-24

    申请号:EP16806191.9

    申请日:2016-12-12

    IPC分类号: G01R33/48 G01R33/56

    CPC分类号: G01R33/56 G01R33/5608

    摘要: The invention provides for a medical imaging system (100, 400) comprising: a memory (112) for storing machine executable instructions and a processor (106) for controlling the medical imaging system. Execution of the machine executable instructions cause the processor to: receive (200) a preliminary segmentation (124) from a preliminary magnetic resonance image (122) of a region of interest (409), wherein the preliminary segmentation comprises preliminary segmentation edges; reconstruct (202) a first QSM image (124) for the region of interest from QSM magnetic resonance data (122), wherein the reconstruction of the QSM image is at least partially performed using a regularization function, wherein the regularization function is dependent upon the preliminary segmentation edges during reconstruction of the first QSM image; calculate (204) a first segmentation (126) by segmenting the first QSM image using a QSM image segmentation algorithm (134), wherein the first segmentation comprises first segmentation edges; and reconstruct (206) a second QSM image (128) for the region of interest from the QSM magnetic resonance data, wherein the reconstruction of the second QSM image is at least partially performed using the regularization function, wherein the regularization function is dependent upon the first segmentation edges.

    PARALLEL MR IMAGING WITH RF COIL SENSITIVITY MAPPING

    公开(公告)号:EP3295194B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-19

    申请号:EP16718716.0

    申请日:2016-04-28

    IPC分类号: G01R33/24 G01R33/561

    摘要: The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10). The problem of the invention is to provide an improved MR imaging technique that enables fast and robust determination of spatial sensitivity profiles of RF receiving antennas (11, 12, 13) used in parallel imaging as well as B1 and/or B0 mapping. The method of the invention comprises subjecting the object (10) to a stimulated echo sequence. Two or more stimulated echo signals (STE, STE*) are acquired, namely a direct stimulated echo signal (STE) and a conjugated stimulated echo signal (STE*), wherein at least one of the stimulated echo signals (STE, STE*) is received in parallel via an array of two or more RF receiving antennas (11, 12, 13) having different spatial sensitivity profiles, and wherein at least another one of the stimulated echo signals (STE, STE*)is received via a body RF coil (9) having an essentially homogeneous spatial sensitivity profile. Sensitivity maps indicating the spatial sensitivity profiles of the individual RF receiving antennas (11, 12, 13) of the array are derived by comparing the stimulated echo signals (STE, STE*) received via the array of RF receiving antennas (11, 12, 13) with the stimulated echo signals (STE, STE*) received via the body RF coil (9). Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a computer program for a MR device (1).