摘要:
The invention provides for a medical instrument (100, 500) comprising a magnetic resonance imaging system (102) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (142) from a subject (118) within an imaging zone (108). The magnetic resonance imaging system comprises: a main magnet (104) for generating a B0 magnetic field within the imaging zone; a memory (134, 136) containing machine executable instructions (160, 162, 164, 166) and pulse sequence commands (140); a processor (130) for controlling the medical instrument. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to: acquire (200) the magnetic resonance data by controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system with the pulse sequence commands; receive (202) a subject magnetic susceptibility map (144) of the subject; calculate (204) a B0 inhomogeneity map (146) from the magnetic resonance data; calculate (206) a subject B0 magnetic field perturbation (148) from the subject magnetic susceptibility map; calculate (208) a residual B0 magnetic field perturbation (150) by subtracting the subject B0 magnetic field perturbation from the B0 inhomogeneity map; and calculate (210) a bone map (152) from the residual B0 magnetic field perturbation.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object positioned in an examination volume of a MR device (1).It is an object of the invention to enable 'silent' ZTE imaging with sampling of k-space center. According to the invention, the object (10) is subjected to an imaging sequence of RF pulses (20) and switched magnetic field gradients (G), wherein an initial RF pulse (20) is radiated before setting a readout magnetic field gradient (G). An initial MR signal is acquired with the readout magnetic field gradient(G) ramping up after a delay after the initial RF pulse (20). Thereafter, the magnetic field gradient (G) remains switched on and the readout direction is gradually varied. Further RF pulses(22) are radiated in the presence of the readout magnetic field gradient(G) and further MR signal are acquired like in conventional ZTE imaging. Finally, a MR image is reconstructed from the acquired MR signals. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device and to a computer program for a MR device.
摘要:
A medical imaging system (10) includes a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner (12), and a MR reconstruction unit (34). The MR scanner (12) applies a multi-echo ultra-short TE (UTE) with mDixon pulse sequence to a subject (16) and receives MR data (33) representing at least a portion of the subject. The MR reconstruction unit (34) reconstructs a Free Induction Decay (FID) image (120), and one or more echo magnitude images (122), one or more phase images (39), an in-phase image (39), a water image (39), and a fat image (39) from the received MR data (33).
摘要:
The invention provides for a medical apparatus (300, 400, 500) comprising: a magnetic resonance imaging system (302) for acquiring magnetic resonance data (342) from an imaging zone (308); a processor (330) for controlling the medical apparatus; a memory (336) storing machine executable instructions (350, 352, 354, 356). Execution of the instructions causes the processor to: acquire (100, 200) the magnetic resonance data using a pulse sequence (340) which specifies an echo time greater than 400 μβ; reconstruct (102, 202) a magnetic resonance image using the magnetic resonance data; generate (104, 204) a thresholded image (346) by thresholding the magnetic resonance image to emphasize bone structures and suppressing tissue structures in the magnetic resonance image; and generate (106, 206) a bone-enhanced image by applying a background removal algorithm to the thresholded image.
摘要:
The present invention is related to a method for correcting a relaxation map of a scanned object comprising a plurality of structure and/or tissue types. The proposed method comprises the steps of : - deriving a first estimate of a relaxation map of a scanned object from at least two scans of said object acquired with a medical imaging modality by means of a sequence of pulses adapted for distinguishing between the various types of a plurality of structure and/or tissue types of said object, - obtaining information on the content of voxels present in the first estimate of the relaxation map, - obtaining a corrected estimate of the relaxation map by combining the information on the content with the first estimate of the relaxation.
摘要:
Single-shot methods suitable for determining capillary pressure and relative permeability curves are proposed. For steady-state gas flow, with stationary water or oil remaining in a porous rock core and the outflow boundary condition (capillary pressure is zero) is maintained by washing the outlet face of the core with the stationary phase, the gas pressure distribution, P(x), is determined by SPRITE (Single-Point Ramped Imaging with T 1 Enhancement) MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) spin density imaging of flowing gas, since the spin density of gas is directly proportional to the pressure of the gas phase. Water or oil saturation distribution, S(x), at the present of steady-state flowing gas, is measured with MRI. The combination of P(x) and S(x) yields a capillary pressure curve, P c (S) and relative permeability curve of flowing gas phase, K rg (S) can be determined with differential form of Darcy's law and ideal gas equations for gas flowing at steady-state. Some embodiments include the steps of providing a porous rock core having a length, an inlet face, and an outlet face; saturating the porous rock core with a first fluid; displacing the first fluid by applying a second fluid to the inlet face of the porous rock core; washing the outlet face of the porous rock core with said second fluid so as to maintain an outflow boundary condition; determining that a substantially steady-state condition has been reached whereat the fluid saturation distribution and pressure distribution along the length of the core do not substantially change with time; performing a single-shot measurement of at least one of a fluid saturation distribution measurement of the porous rock core and a pressure distribution measurement of the porous rock core; and determining a property of the porous rock core by using the single-shot measurement.
摘要:
In an NMR solid-state imaging experiment, a pulsed gradient (gradient) is interleaved between subcycles (100, 102, 104, 106 and 108, 110, 112, 114) of a line-narrowing RF pulse sequence (RF) in such a manner that the RF and gradient fields do not overlap in time, the subcycles of RF modulation which occur between gradient pulses (100, 102, 104, 106 and 108, 110, 112, 114) are either cyclic or anti-cyclic and symmetric. The line-narrowing pulse sequence can be broken into subcycles (100, 102, 104, 106 and 108, 110, 112, 114), each of which is dipolar decoupling to at least a zero-order approximation. The gradient pulses are intercalated between a selected set of the subcycles which are symmetric. In this manner the prior art zero-order decoupling of the line narrowing interaction and the gradient interaction is extended to include the zero order and all odd order terms in the Magnus expansion of the average dipolar Hamiltonian. If the selected subcycle is dipolar decoupling to second order, then the gradient will also be decoupled to second order.
摘要:
Ein Verfahren dient zur mehrdimensionalen Messung von magnetischer Resonanz in definierten kleinen Volumenbereichen einer Festkörper-Probe. Die Probe wird in einem konstanten, homogenen Magnetfeld angeordnet und in vorbestimmter Weise mit einer Folge von Hochfrequenz-Impulsen (11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19) bestrahlt sowie einer Folge von Gradienten-Magnetfeld-Impulsen (14 bis 16) ausgesetzt. Dies geschieht derart, daß die zu messende Magnetisierung der Spins für eine Zeitdauer aufrechterhalten wird, die länger als eine Abschaltdauer der Gradienten-Magnetfeld-Impulse (14 bis 16) ist. Zunächst wird in einem ersten Zeitintervall (τ₁) die Magnetisierung nur einer Scheibe der Probe in eine um 90° gekippte Transversalmagnetisierung überführt. Alsdann werden in einem zweiten Zeitintervall (τ₂) volumenselektive Gradienten-Magnetfeld-Impulse (15, 16) eingestrahlt. In einem dritten Zeitintervall (τ₄), während des Andauerns der volumenselektiven Gradienten-Magnetfeld-Impulse (15, 16) werden Hochfrequenz-Impulse (17 bis 19) auf die Probe eingestrahlt, welche die zu messende Transversalmagnetisierung im Volumenbereich in einen Multipol-Zustand überführen, der für die volumenselektiven Gradienten-Magnetfeld-Impulse (15, 16) unempfindlich ist und bis über den Zeitpunkt deren Abschaltens andauert. Schließlich wird in einem vierten Zeitintervall τ₃der Multipol-Zustand wieder in eine Transversalmagnetisierung rückgeführt und diese als Signal (20) ausgelesen.