摘要:
A method and system for determining a magnetic field map in a MR system based on position of a movable patient support of the MR system are provided, wherein a first resulting field map including position dependent information about a magnetic field distribution in an homogeneity volume including an examination volume of the MR system is provided when the movable patient support is located at a first position, wherein a stationary field map including information about a magnetic field distribution in the homogeneity volume is provided, which is independent of the position of the movable patient support, wherein a position dependent field map including information about a magnetic field distribution in the homogeneity volume mainly influenced by a position of the movable patient support is determined using the stationary field map and the first resulting field map, and wherein a second resulting field map in the homogeneity volume is determined when the movable patient support is located at a second position different from the first position, using the stationary field map and the position dependent field map.
摘要:
An electric properties tomography method for reconstructing a spatial distribution of electric conductivity (σ) from magnetic resonance image data representative of a magnetic resonance image of at least a portion of a subject of interest (20), the spatial distribution covering at least a portion of the area of the magnetic resonance image, and the method comprising following steps: - segmenting the magnetic resonance image, - extrapolating acquired phase values, - replacing acquired phase values by the extrapolated phase values, - transforming into the frequency domain, - multiplying a frequency domain-transformed numerical second derivative by the acquired phase values and the frequency domain-transformed numerical second derivative by the extrapolated phase values, respectively, and - transforming the result of the multiplying into the spatial domain. Also covered are a corresponding MRI system and a software module.
摘要:
A method for calculating a local specific energy absorption rate (SAR) on basis of an electric parameter and the mass density of a segmented geometry of an object and a magnetic field vector distribution of a radio frequency (RF) antenna. The values of the electric parameter and the mass density are pre-determined values, while the magnetic field vector distribution is estimated by a magnetic field mapping method based on a magnetic resonance (MR) scan. The magnetic field mapping method based on a magnetic resonance scan can be a B 1 mapping method. The invention also relates to a magnetic resonance system by means of which SAR calculation can be done in a relatively short period of time. The invention also relates to a computer program comprising instructions for calculating a local specific energy absorption rate (SAR) according to the above mentioned method. The SAR calculation used in the above mentioned method, system and program is done in the relatively short period of time and as such is practicable in a clinical setting.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance method of electric properties tomography imaging of an object includes applying an excitation RF field to the object via a coil at a first spatial coil position (402), acquiring resulting magnetic resonance signals via a receiving channel from the object, determining from the acquired magnetic resonance signals a first phase distribution and a first amplitude of a given magnetic field component of the excitation RF field of the coil at the first coil position (402), repeating these steps with a coil at a second different spatial coil position (404), to obtain a second phase distribution, determining a phase difference between the first and second phase distribution, determining a first and a second complex permittivity of the object, the first complex permittivity comprising the first amplitude of the given magnetic field component and the second complex permittivity comprising the second amplitude of the given magnetic field component and the phase difference, equating the first complex permittivity and the second complex permittivity for receiving a final equation and determining from the final equation a phase of the given magnetic field component for the first coil position (402).
摘要:
A method for determining the flip angle distribution in magnetic resonance imaging involves the acquisition of the signal in the transient phase of an unbalanced steady state free precession (SSFP) sequence. The actual flip angle may be determined by measuring the frequency of the damped oscillatory component of the deviation from steady state. The method according to the present invention allows to perform fast and accurate B 1 mapping with little dependence on tissue parameters and a good robustness against noise.
摘要:
For the purpose of compensating for a variation in the static magnetic field of an MRI apparatus, RF probes 1P1 and 1P2 are placed and a reference static magnetic field is measured as a reference frequency in the beginning; the static magnetic field is measured at an appropriate time as a frequency to determine the amount of static magnetic field variation from their difference; and the transmission frequency of an RF pulse and the receiving detection frequency of an NMR signal are corrected or the gradient current for a gradient coil is corrected so as to compensate for the amount of the magnetic field variation.
摘要:
An apparatus for measuring a magnetic field comprising: a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probe (20) including a high frequency coil (21); a high frequency oscillator (16) connected to provide to the NMR probe coil (21) a high frequency signal. Bias coils (23, 24, 18) generate a bias magnetic field which is superimposed on the magnetic field to be measured. An ancillary magnetic field measuring device (25, 15) for provides an approximate measurement of the magnetic field to be measured and a computing circuit (100) computes on the basis of the approximate magnetic field measurement a frequency for the high frequency signal for the NMR probe coil (21) which should cause nuclear magnetic resonance. The output of the high frequency oscillator (16) accordingly. The bias current for the bias coils is varied over a predetermined range, and detector amplifier means (17) senses variations in inductance in the high frequency coil (21) due to nuclear magnetic resonance as the bias current is varied. The bias current which produces a maximum variation in inductance is determined and computing means (100) calculates the magnitude of the magnetic field to be measured from the determined maximum inductance variation incuding bias current and the frequency of the signal supplied to the NMR probe coil (21). The result is displayed on a display (102).
摘要:
An apparatus for measuring a magnetic field comprising: a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probe (20) including a high frequency coil (21); a high frequency oscillator (16) connected to provide to the NMR probe coil (21) a high frequency signal. Bias coils (23, 24, 18) generate a bias magnetic field which is superimposed on the magnetic field to be measured. An ancillary magnetic field measuring device (25, 15) for provides an approximate measurement of the magnetic field to be measured and a computing circuit (100) computes on the basis of the approximate magnetic field measurement a frequency for the high frequency signal for the NMR probe coil (21) which should cause nuclear magnetic resonance. The output of the high frequency oscillator (16) accordingly. The bias current for the bias coils is varied over a predetermined range, and detector amplifier means (17) senses variations in inductance in the high frequency coil (21) due to nuclear magnetic resonance as the bias current is varied. The bias current which produces a maximum variation in inductance is determined and computing means (100) calculates the magnitude of the magnetic field to be measured from the determined maximum inductance variation incuding bias current and the frequency of the signal supplied to the NMR probe coil (21). The result is displayed on a display (102).
摘要:
The invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system 1 comprising a magnet unit 4 that carries out an MRI sequence for generating MRI signals of a patient 2, excites a resonator device 8, 38 attached to the patient or to an object not being the patient and comprising a resonator element having piezoelectric properties and a coil element connected to the resonator element, and receives resonator device signals from the resonator device. A processor 5 reconstructs an MR image of the patient based on the MRI signals and determines a property of the patient or the object, to which the resonator device is attached, based on the received resonator device signals. This allows determining the property of the patient or the object by the MRI system without necessarily requiring, besides the resonator device, additional hardware, i.e. the property can be determined without requiring sophisticated additional hardware.