摘要:
Methods and systems are provided that perform baseband beamforming of ultrasound signals. The methods and systems obtain receive signals from transducers of an ultrasound probe and demodulate the receive signals to obtain complex receive signals having in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components. The methods and systems apply time delay and phase correction to the complex receive signals to form delayed complex receive signals before summing the delayed complex receive signals to produce a coherent receive signal. The phase correction includes applying coarse and fine corrections where the coarse correction is calculated as a multiple of a sampling time and the fine correction is calculated as a fraction of the sampling time. The methods and systems apply the coarse and fine corrections contemporaneously by multiplying the complex receive signal by a complex carrier delayed by a multiple of the sampling time and delayed by the fraction of the sampling time.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a magnet having two poles and a wall connecting the poles; the poles delimiting a patient-imaging space; and a table which is slidably connected to one of the two poles between the two poles and which table extends substantially parallel to the two poles; a drive for displacing the table relative to the magnet; a lock for locking the table in a selected position relative to the magnet; a drive for rotating the magnet about the axis; the table connected to the magnet such that the table rotates with the magnet when the magnet rotates about the axis; the magnet and the table being rotatable from a position in which the poles and the table are horizontal to a position in which the table and the poles are vertical.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method of correcting inhomogeneity of the static magnetic field generated by the magnet of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging machine, wherein the magnet is flat and the magnetic field on one side of said magnet is corrected such that a volume is defined, which is bounded by a spherical cap surface, in which volume and along which surface the magnetic field is homogeneous, i.e. has field lines having equal parallel directions and equal intensities.
摘要:
A system for acquiring ultrasound diagnostic images, comprises:
an ultrasound imaging device comprising:
a probe provided with one or more electroacoustic transducers; a unit transmitting an ultrasonic beam through the transducers within a body under examination; a unit receiving and processing ultrasound signals received from the transducers for generating real-time images;
a probe tracking system comprising probe detecting sensors and a processing unit for calculating the probe position and/or the probe orientation and/or the probe displacement from the data provided by the probe detecting sensors, wherein at least the processing unit of the probe tracking unit is a physically separated unit from the ultrasound imaging device and said ultrasound imaging device and said probe tracking system communicate by means of a short-range wireless communication protocol being provided respectively with a corresponding transmitting and/or receiving communication unit.
摘要:
A method for separately acquiring and outputting diagnostic nuclear magnetic resonance images based on water and fat derived signals, which method provides that the separation of the signal components corresponding to the intensity of the resulting pixels or voxels derived from the water of tissues in the body under examination from those signal components derived from the fat tissues in said body under examination of the step is performed by means of a machine learning algorithm, or with automatic learning and which algorithms are configured to classify the signal component as derived from water or fat tissues in the body under examination.
摘要:
Method for shimming a magnetic field which is generated by a magnetic structure, and which permeates a volume of space uses the following steps: measuring the magnetic field in a region of a volume of space permeated by the said magnetic field; determining a parameter which is a measure of the homogeneity of the magnetic field; defining a distribution of correction elements including a predetermined number of magnetic dipoles each having a predetermined magnetic charge and a predetermined position relatively to the magnetic structure generating the magnetic field; calculating the charges of each of the dipoles and the position of each of the dipoles of a distribution which minimizes the parameter being a measure of the homogeneity of the magnetic field; using the distribution of dipoles as the shimming distribution of dipoles to be positioned on the magnetic structure.
摘要:
A method and system for two-dimensional shear wave elastography imaging (SWEI) that acquires B-mode ultrasound image of a region, selects an area of the B-mode image, automatically acquires two-dimensional shear wave elastography imaging data related to the selected area, and displays elasticity/velocity map on the selected area and optionally a reliability map. An algorithm takes as input one or combination of data sets selected from B-mode raw data or B-mode image data or elasticity/velocity map or reliability map or raw two-dimensional shear wave elastography imaging data inside selected area, or two-dimensional shear wave elastography imaging data at an intermediate stage of processing like displacement curves over time or their peak features, and outputs the 2D coordinate of measure ROI center. Measure ROI overlapped on the B-mode image and/or on the elasticity map and/or on the reliability map is displayed. An elasticity parameter inside the measure ROI is computed, optionally weighted, and displayed.
摘要:
Magnetic field sensor, in particular for measuring magnetic noise fields caused by environmental magnetic noise in combination with MRI apparatus, the magnetic field sensor being further provided with field compensation coils assembly and with a compensation circuit driving the field compensation coils assembly to generate a magnetic field compensating the static magnetic field dissipating outside from the static magnetic field generator or from the gantry of the MRI apparatus at the position of the magnetic sensor. A method for operating the magnetic field sensor and a method and a system for compensation magnetic noise caused by environmental noise are also provided. An MRI apparatus is also disclosed comprising such a system and carrying out such a method for compensating magnetic noise fields.
摘要:
A method for designing gradient coils includes the following steps: a) defining an imaging volume as an ellipsoid; b) defining an elliptic-cylindrical surface enclosing the said ellipsoid; c) defining the current density at each point of the surface by a series of basis functions and corresponding coefficients expressed in elliptic cylindrical coordinates; d) describing the magnetic field generated at a generic point by the above defined current density integrated all over the said entire elliptic-cylindrical surface; e) determining the values of the coefficients of the basis functions by solving the inverse function for describing the magnetic field; f) generating a discrete winding patter of a gradient coil by using a stream function method from the continuous current density and by using a series of scattered contours of the stream function as the design of the winding patters according to a set total number of windings.
摘要:
A method for postural independent location of targets in diagnostic images acquired by multimodal acquisitions, compensating for deformation of soft tissues due to changing posture, includes generating a transition of a digital image of the inside of a target region from a first to a second position by correlating the position of markers placed on the external surface of the target region in a digital image of the inside of the target region and in a digital representation of the external surface of the target region acquired by optically scanning the external surface; and at a later time registering the diagnostic image of the inside of the target region, transitioned into the second position, with a diagnostic image of the same target region acquired with the target region in the second position by matching a second representation of the external surface of the target region in the second position without markers with the diagnostic image of the inside of the target region transitioned into the second position.