摘要:
To obtain a high quality image at a vascular area at high speed: (1) there is used a pulse sequence which includes a bipolar phase encoding magnetic field, dephases a stationary area, and does not generate the first order moment; (2) phase distortions are estimated from measured data and removed, without incorporating a new function for function fitting; and (3) the relationship between the application timing of a readout gradient magnetic field and the latest application time of the other slice selection and phase encoding magnetic fields is obtained using as its parameter the time T.sub.E from excitation to generation of an echo peak within a measurement signal, and using this relationship, the application timing T.sub.E is obtained which makes minimum the echo peak shift quantity.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance signal is detected at a plurality of different periods of time in accordance with the phase shift of a plurality of chemical shift components while varying the intensity of a gradient magnetic field with time, a plurality of magnetic resonance signal thus obtained are used for estimating a magnetic resonance signal due to only a predetermined chemical shift component, the phase rotation of the predetermined chemical shift component is corrected in the estimated resonance signal, and further a blur due to chemical shift components other than the predetermined one is corrected to obtain a tomogram formed of only the predetermined chemical shift component. Alternatively, one measured resonance signal is modified by an image reconstruction algorithm peculiar to each of a plurality of chemical shift components, to obtain tomograms corresponding to the chemical shift components.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance signal is detected at a plurality of different periods of time in accordance with the phase shift of a plurality of chemical shift components while varying the intensity of a gradient magnetic field with time, a plurality of magnetic resonance signals thus obtained are used for estimating a magnetic resonance signal due to only a predetermined chemical shift component, the phase rotation of the predetermined chemical shift component is corrected in the estimated resonance signal, and further a blur due to chemical shift components other than the predetermined one is corrected to obtain a tomogram formed of only the predetermined chemical shift component. Alternatively, one measured resonance signal is modified by an image construction algorithm peculiar to each of a plurality of chemical shift components, to obtain tomograms corresponding to the chemical shift components.
摘要:
In order to permit the detection of a respiratory motion and an imaging synchronized with the respiration by an NMR imaging apparatus itself without any special hardware, a sequence for detecting the respiratory motion is repeated for a short time immediately before the measurement of an image signal to detect the position and speed of the respiratory motion, and a desired image signal is measured in synchronism with the detected position. Alternatively, the respiratory motion is detected immediately after the measurement of an image signal, and the measured image signal is corrected in accordance with the detected amount to obtain a desired image signal synchronized with the respiration.
摘要:
To display the information, as an image, regarding the moving portion of the object without the aid of the doctor, the image is reconstructed on the basis of the observed NMR signal and the image phase information is calculated from the image intensity information derived from the reconstructed image, and the phase information calculated is displayed as the image.
摘要:
An MR imaging method comprising detecting resonant signals from a portion including blood vessels by the three-dimensional imaging incorporating depthwise information, and performing subtraction, with respect to the signal data in each voxel in the complex number representation, between the image data obtained by adding the complex numbers in the projection direction and the image data obtained by adding the absolute values of the complex numbers in the projection direction, to extract the image of only the blood vessel.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for MRI imaging capable of reducing the time between end of measurement and completion of image reconstruction by performing part of image reconstruction calculation in parallel with measurement of magnetic resonance signals, which particularly performs image reconstruction calculation up to (N-1) dimensions of N-dimensional image reconstruction calculation in parallel with measurement of signals and performs the image reconstruction calculation for the remaining one-dimensional direction after the measurement has been finished. When calculation for the last one dimension is performed, the (N-1)-dimensional images for which image reconstruction has been completed are successively displayed, and the image reconstruction calculation for the remaining one-dimensional direction is carried out not by FFT but by discrete Fourier transform, or such that the order of signal measurement is made in the bit reversed order for the order of phase encoding quantity, and thereby, a further portion of the image reconstruction calculation is carried out in parallel with the signal measurement.
摘要:
In order to eliminate the degradation of NMR image caused by a body motion due to breathing or the like, one of measured image signals is selected as a reference, correlation is calculated between each measured image signal and the reference, and the image signal is modified on the basis of the value of correlation.
摘要:
There is provided an image noise reduction method for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of an image when observed. The image signal of an identical region is measured twice at different times. Images obtained by respective measurements and seen from an identical visual point are so juxtaposed on an identical plane as to form two sheets. By seeing the two sheets of images with parallax changed directly or through stereo glass, the effective signal components of the images are focused on the same plane whereas only noise components are dispersed in a direction perpendicular to the plane.
摘要:
To display the information, as an image, regarding the moving portion of the object without the aid of the doctor, the image is reconstructed on the basis of the observed NMR signal and the image phase information is calculated from the image intensity information derived from the reconstructed image, and the phase information calculated is displayed as the image.