Abstract:
The invention provides for a medical imaging system (100, 300). The medical imaging system (100, 300) comprises a processor (104). Execution of machine executable instructions (120) causes the processor (104) to: receive magnetic resonance data, wherein the magnetic resonance data comprises B0 field data (122) of a reference scan for a plurality of voxels and water saturation data (124) of a WASSR scan for a subset of voxels of the plurality of voxels, the water saturation data (124) comprising data of a limited number of sample points; determine a local absolute water saturation frequency (130) for each voxel of the subset using the water saturation data (124) of the WASSR scan; and reconstruct a field map (132) comprising a local absolute water saturation frequency for each voxel of the plurality of voxel, wherein the reconstruction comprises determining relative frequency differences between the voxels using the B0 field data (122) of the reference scan and adding a frequency offset to the relative frequency differences based on the determined local absolute water saturation frequencies (130) of the subset.
Abstract:
The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) configured for acquiring magnetic resonance data (142) from an imaging zone (108) according to a PROPELLER magnetic resonance imaging protocol. The pulse sequence is configured such that the pulse sequence data for each of the multiple blades of magnetic resonance data comprises coil specific magne tic resonance data (146, 146', 146", 146" ') acquired for each of multiple antenna elements simultaneously (126, 126', 126", 126" '). The magnetic resonance imaging system is further configured to perform the following for each blade: reconstruct (214) a blade image (150, 150') from the coil specific magnetic resonance data for each antenna element according to a parallel imaging magnetic resonance imaging protocol, construct (218) a Chi map (154, 154') for the blade image using the set of coil sensitivities, the blade image, and the coil specific magnetic resonance data.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method of medical imaging comprising receiving (200) k-space data (124) that is divided into multiple k-space data groups (126). The method further comprises selecting (202) one of the multiple k-space data groups as a reference k-space data group (128). The method further comprises calculating (204) spatial transform data (130) for each of the multiple k-space data groups by inputting the multiple k-space data groups and the reference k-space data group into a transformation estimation module. The spatial transformation estimation module is configured for outputting spatial transform data descriptive of a spatial transform between a reference k-space data group and multiple k-space data groups in response to receiving the reference k-space data group and the multiple k-space data groups as input. The method further comprises reconstructing (206) a corrected magnetic resonance image (132, 132') according to the magnetic resonance imaging protocol using the multiple k-space data groups and the spatial transform data for each of the multiple k-space data groups.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) positioned in an examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to enable fast spiral MR imaging with a defined T 2 contrast. The method of the invention comprises the following steps: - generating a number of spin echoes by subjecting the object (10) to one or more shots of an imaging sequence, each shot comprising an RF excitation pulse (21) followed by a number of RF refocusing pulses (22), wherein modulated readout magnetic field gradients (23, 24) are applied in each interval between successive RF refocusing pulses (22), - acquiring MR signal data, wherein each spin echo is recorded along a spiral trajectory (31-33, 41-43) in k-space which winds around the k-space origin with varying radial distance, wherein the trajectory (31, 41) of at least one spin echo has a different rate of variation of the radial distance at least in a central k-space region compared to the trajectories (32, 33, 42, 43) of the other spin echoes, and - reconstructing an MR image from the acquired MR signal data. Moreover, the invention relates to an MR device (1) and to a computer program for an MR device (1).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of parallel MR imaging. The method comprises the steps of: a) subjecting the portion of the body (10) to an imaging sequence of at least one RF pulse and a plurality of switched magnetic field gradients, wherein MR signals are acquired in parallel via a plurality of RF coils (11, 12, 13) having different spatial sensitivity profiles within the examination volume, b) deriving an estimated ghost level map from the acquired MR signals and from spatial sensitivity maps of the RF coils (11, 12, 13), c) reconstructing a MR image from the acquired MR signals, the spatial sensitivity maps, and the estimated ghost level map. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a computer program for a MR device (1).
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120) and a convolutional neural network (122) configured for outputting a predetermined number of deblurred magnetic resonance images (126) that are slices of a deblurred magnetic resonance imaging data set in response to receiving a set of partially deblurred magnetic resonance images for each of the slices. The execution of the machine executable instructions causes a computational system (104) to: receive (200) the set of partially deblurred magnetic resonance images; receive (202) the predetermined number of deblurred magnetic resonance images in response to inputting the set of partially deblurred magnetic resonance images for each of the slices into the convolutional neural network; calculate (204) a set of difference images (128) for each of the slices by calculating a difference between the deblurred magnetic resonance image and each of the set of partially deblurred magnetic resonance images; and calculate (206) a determined B0 inhomogeneity map (130) for each of the slices by fitting a smooth manifold to B0 values determined from the set of difference images, the demodulation frequency map, and the assigned demodulating frequency for each of the set of difference images.