Method and apparatus for automated tracking of non-linear vessel movement using MR imaging
    2.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for automated tracking of non-linear vessel movement using MR imaging 有权
    使用MR成像自动跟踪非线性血管运动的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US07209777B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-04-24

    申请号:US09728071

    申请日:2000-11-30

    IPC分类号: A61B5/05

    摘要: A system and method is disclosed for tracking a moving object using magnetic resonance imaging. The technique includes acquiring a scout image scan having a number of image frames and extracting non-linear motion parameters from the number of image frames of the scout image scan. The technique includes prospectively shifting slice location using the non-linear motion parameters between slice locations while acquiring a series of MR images. The system and method are particularly useful in tracking coronary artery movement during the cardiac cycle to acquire the non-linear components of coronary artery movement during a diastolic portion of the R—R interval.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种使用磁共振成像跟踪运动物体的系统和方法。 该技术包括获取具有多个图像帧的侦察图像扫描,并从侦察图像扫描的图像帧的数量中提取非线性运动参数。 该技术包括使用切片位置之间的非线性运动参数前进移位切片位置,同时获取一系列MR图像。 该系统和方法在心脏周期期间跟踪冠状动脉运动特别有用,以在R-R间期的舒张期期间获得冠状动脉运动的非线性分量。

    Methods for the simultaneous detection of multiple magnetic resonance
images
    3.
    发明授权
    Methods for the simultaneous detection of multiple magnetic resonance images 失效
    同时检测多个磁共振图像的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5578924A

    公开(公告)日:1996-11-26

    申请号:US558296

    申请日:1995-11-15

    IPC分类号: G01R33/54 G01R33/48

    CPC分类号: G01R33/4835 G01R33/4833

    摘要: A multi-planar imaging method employs magnetic resonance to detect image data from multiple planes within a subject. Data from each plane are detected in response to the same readout gradient and are simultaneously detected. The image planes can be arbitrarily oriented with respect to each other and with respect to the readout and phase-encoding image formation magnetic field gradient pulses if desired. Overlap of image data from each of the excited image planes in the acquired image is prevented by employing a thick refocusing slab oriented orthogonal to the readout and phase-encoding directions, or by choosing planes which intersect outside the subject's anatomy.

    摘要翻译: 多平面成像方法采用磁共振来检测受试者内的多个平面的图像数据。 根据相同的读出梯度检测来自每个平面的数据,并同时检测。 如果需要,图像平面可以相对于彼此和相对于读出和相位编码图像形成磁场梯度脉冲任意取向。 通过采用与读出和相位编码方向正交取向的厚度重聚焦板,或通过选择与被摄体的解剖结构外部相交的平面来防止获取的图像中的每个激发的图像平面上的图像数据的重叠。

    Scan control platform-based interactive image plane prescription for MRI
    4.
    发明授权
    Scan control platform-based interactive image plane prescription for MRI 失效
    基于扫描控制平台的交互式图像平面处方用于MRI

    公开(公告)号:US5512827A

    公开(公告)日:1996-04-30

    申请号:US460018

    申请日:1995-06-02

    IPC分类号: G01R33/54 G01R33/48

    CPC分类号: G01R33/54

    摘要: A newly acquired MR image of an imaging subject is displayed on a display device. An operator interactively manipulates the imaging plane during imaging, by using a button, a rocker switch, a knob, and a trackball. The button enables or disables interactive scan-plane control. The rocker switch chooses between "translate", and "rotate" modes. In "translate" mode, the knob pushes the imaging plane deeper or shallower relative to the most recently displayed image, while the trackball slides the plane sideways and/or up and down. In "rotate" mode, the knob spins the imaging plane about the center of the most recently displayed image without changing the tilt of the plane, while the trackball tumbles or tilts the imaging plane. Colored icons displayed over the image change location, size, and/or shape to indicate the direction and extent of the translation or rotation. When motion of the knob or trackball ceases, or an acquire image button is pressed, the icon reassumes its default size, shape, and location, and the location and orientation information is transformed and provided to a pulse sequencer of a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system. The pulse sequencer controls an RF transmitter and gradient amplifiers to cause an MR image of the subject at an imaging plane to be acquired. The new imaging-plane location is then used for all subsequent images, until another change is made.

    摘要翻译: 在显示装置上显示摄像对象的新获取的MR图像。 操作者通过使用按钮,摇杆开关,旋钮和轨迹球在成像期间交互地操纵成像平面。 该按钮启用或禁用交互式扫描平面控制。 摇杆开关在“平移”和“旋转”模式之间进行选择。 在“翻译”模式中,旋钮将成像平面相对于最近显示的图像更深或更浅,同时轨迹球横向滑动平面和/或上下滑动。 在“旋转”模式下,旋钮将成像平面围绕最近显示的图像的中心旋转,而不会改变平面的倾斜,而轨迹球会翻转或倾斜成像平面。 在图像上显示的彩色图标更改位置,大小和/或形状,以指示翻译或旋转的方向和范围。 当旋钮或轨迹球的运动停止或按下获取的图像按钮时,图标重新确定其默认尺寸,形状和位置,并且将位置和方向信息变换并提供给磁共振(MR)的脉冲序列器, 成像系统。 脉冲序列发生器控制RF发射器和梯度放大器,以获得成像平面上的对象的MR图像。 然后将新的成像平面位置用于所有后续图像,直到进行另一个改变。

    Method for using three points to define a 2D MR imaging section
    5.
    发明授权
    Method for using three points to define a 2D MR imaging section 有权
    使用三个点来定义2D MR成像部分的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06275035B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-08-14

    申请号:US09200165

    申请日:1998-11-25

    IPC分类号: G01V300

    CPC分类号: G01R33/54

    摘要: A method and apparatus for producing an imaging plane on an image of a structure of interest, such as an anatomical structure, positioned in an MRI system. An operator interactively pages through real-time, planar sections of the structure of interest. Using an input device, the operator selects three separate points in a planar section of the structure under study. Within approximately one second of selection of the third point, the method of the present invention determines the imaging plane containing the three selected points, determines the centroid of the imaging plane centered on a triangle defined by the three selected points, sends such imaging geometry and in-plane offsets of the imaging plane directly to the MRI system to generate a new imaging plane optimally positioned with respect to the selected points on the structure of interest and displaying such new imaging plane. The operator can also selectively maneuver the imaging plane on the image of the structure of interest. The operator uses a graphical user interface in conjunction with the input device and a display screen for producing the imaging plane on the structure of interest. Such graphical user interface is referred to as a three point tool.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于在诸如解剖结构的感兴趣结构的图像上产生成像平面的方法和装置,其位于MRI系统中。 操作者通过交互式浏览感兴趣的结构的实时平面部分。 使用输入设备,操作员在正在研究的结构的平面部分中选择三个独立的点。 在第三点的选择大约一秒之内,本发明的方法确定包含三个选定点的成像平面,确定以由三个选定点定义的三角形为中心的成像平面的质心,发送这样的成像几何和 成像平面的面内偏移直接到MRI系统以产生相对于感兴趣的结构上的所选点最佳定位的新成像平面并且显示这种新的成像平面。 操作者还可以选择性地操纵感兴趣的结构的图像上的成像平面。 操作者使用与输入设备结合的图形用户界面和用于在感兴趣的结构上产生成像平面的显示屏幕。 这种图形用户界面被称为三点工具。

    Sampling-ring saturation pulse for two-dimensional magnetic resonance
selective excitation
    6.
    发明授权
    Sampling-ring saturation pulse for two-dimensional magnetic resonance selective excitation 失效
    用于二维磁共振选择性激发的采样环饱和脉冲

    公开(公告)号:US5313163A

    公开(公告)日:1994-05-17

    申请号:US928390

    申请日:1992-08-12

    摘要: A method for suppressing sampling-ring artifacts produced by spiral-scan-based 2D selective excitation pulses, such as a those exciting a `pencil-shaped` region, employs a 2D annular saturation pulse followed by a gradient `crusher` lobe which dephases the transverse magnetization in the annular region. The annular saturation pulse is itself based on a spiral k-space trajectory having a limited number of cycles and a small outer radius, and is designed to saturate magnetization of tissue of the subject corresponding to the artifact rings of an excitation region while not affecting a central region. The annular saturation pulse may also be reshaped to limit the peak RF power to levels currently used for clinical MR imaging, while preserving bandwidth and the 2D excitation profile.

    摘要翻译: 用于抑制由基于螺旋扫描的2D选择性激发脉冲(例如那些激发“铅笔形”)区域产生的采样环伪像的方法采用2D环形饱和脉冲,随后是梯度“破碎机” 环形区域的横向磁化强度。 环形饱和脉冲本身基于具有有限数量的周期和小的外半径的螺旋k空间轨迹,并且被设计为饱和对象于激发区域的假象环的对象的组织的磁化,同时不影响 中央区域。 环形饱和脉冲也可以被重新形成,以将峰值RF功率限制到目前用于临床MR成像的水平,同时保持带宽和2D激励分布。

    Heat surgery system monitored by real-time magnetic resonance profiling
    7.
    发明授权
    Heat surgery system monitored by real-time magnetic resonance profiling 失效
    热手术系统通过实时磁共振分析进行监测

    公开(公告)号:US5307812A

    公开(公告)日:1994-05-03

    申请号:US38204

    申请日:1993-03-26

    摘要: Surgery is performed with a pulsed heat-producing device that selectively heats a region in a specific tissue within a patient destroying the tissue. The pulsed heat-producing device may be a coherent optical source that is guided by laser fiber to the tissue to be destroyed. In another embodiment, the pulsed heat-producing device is a focussed ultrasound transducer which concentrates ultrasonic energy at a focal point within the specific tissue. A magnetic resonance imaging system employing a real-time temperature-sensitive pulse sequence monitors the heated region of the tissue to provide temperature profiles allowing an operator to alter the position and size of the heated region.

    摘要翻译: 使用脉冲发热装置进行手术,该装置选择性地加热破坏组织的患者内的特定组织中的区域。 脉冲发热装置可以是由激光纤维引导到要破坏的组织的相干光源。 在另一个实施例中,脉冲发热装置是聚焦的超声换能器,其将超声能量集中在特定组织内的焦点处。 使用实时温度敏感脉冲序列的磁共振成像系统监测组织的加热区域以提供温度分布,允许操作者改变加热区域的位置和尺寸。

    Fast NMR cardiac profile imaging
    8.
    发明授权
    Fast NMR cardiac profile imaging 失效
    快速NMR心脏造影成像

    公开(公告)号:US4995394A

    公开(公告)日:1991-02-26

    申请号:US392315

    申请日:1989-08-11

    摘要: A substantially continuous image, recording motion of a portion of a sample, is provided by first NMR exciting, through use of a rotating-gradient (.rho.) pulse signal, a relatively narrow cylindrical region, typically with diameter less than 1 inch, of magnetization intersecting the sample to be imaged and then acquiring the NMR response signal thus excited, in the presence of a readout gradient oriented along the length of the cylindrical excitation beam and establishing position thereon. A Fourier transformation of the acquired data allows display of a real-time record of the profile of the sample along the axis of the cylindrical probe beam. The cylinder-beam axis can be oriented in an arbitrary direction by proper mixing of the excitation and readout gradient fields; use of three orthogonal gradients in a Cartesian coordinate system is presently preferred. Spatial offsetting of the cylindrical beam, from the center of the static magnetic field of the NMR imaging system, to any specific location within the system's imaging volume, can be obtained by frequency modulation of the .rho. pulse RF waveform.

    Methods for the simultaneous detection of multiple magnetic resonance
images using phase modulated excitation
    9.
    发明授权
    Methods for the simultaneous detection of multiple magnetic resonance images using phase modulated excitation 失效
    使用相位调制激励同时检测多个磁共振图像的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5548216A

    公开(公告)日:1996-08-20

    申请号:US558298

    申请日:1995-11-15

    IPC分类号: G01R33/54 G01V3/00

    CPC分类号: G01R33/4835

    摘要: A multi-planar imaging method employs magnetic resonance to detect image data from multiple planes within a subject. Data from each plane are detected in response to the same readout gradient and are simultaneously detected. The image planes can be arbitrarily oriented with respect to each other and with respect to the readout and phase-encoding image formation magnetic field gradient pulses if desired. Overlap of image data from each of the excited image planes in the acquired image is prevented by modulating the phase of each RF excitation pulse in concert with the amplitude of the phase-encoding gradient pulse to cause the image data from each excitation plane to be displaced by a unique amount in the phase-encoding direction.

    摘要翻译: 多平面成像方法采用磁共振来检测受试者内的多个平面的图像数据。 根据相同的读出梯度检测来自每个平面的数据,并同时检测。 如果需要,图像平面可以相对于彼此和相对于读出和相位编码图像形成磁场梯度脉冲任意取向。 通过与相位编码梯度脉冲的振幅一致地调制每个RF激励脉冲的相位来防止来自获取的图像中的每个激发的图像平面的图像数据的重叠,从而使来自每个激励平面的图像数据移位 通过相位编码方向的独特量。

    Oblique MR image controlled from a 3D workstation model
    10.
    发明授权
    Oblique MR image controlled from a 3D workstation model 失效
    从3D工作站模型控制的斜体MR图像

    公开(公告)号:US5514962A

    公开(公告)日:1996-05-07

    申请号:US203079

    申请日:1994-02-28

    IPC分类号: G01R33/54 G01V3/00

    摘要: Three-dimensional (3D) image data is acquired from a subject with a medical imaging device and stored. The stored 3D image data is processed by a model workstation to segment the model into discrete structures and produce a segmented computer graphic model. An operator interacts with the model workstation to cause it to display desired structures of the the segmented model in a desired view and orientation. The operator also selects a position and orientation of a cutting plane passing through the segmented model. Once selected, the position and orientation information is provided to a pulse sequencer of a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system. The pulse sequencer controls an RF transmitter and gradient amplifiers to cause an MR image of the subject at an imaging plane, corresponding to the cutting plane of the model workstation, to be acquired. This allows fast, accurate image plane selection, which may be selected by an operator who is simultaneously performing a medical procedure on the subject, aid in the procedure.

    摘要翻译: 利用医学成像装置从受检者获取三维(3D)图像数据并存储。 存储的3D图像数据由模型工作站处理以将模型分割成离散结构并产生分段计算机图形模型。 操作者与模型工作站进行交互,使其以期望的视图和方向显示分段模型的所需结构。 操作员还选择通过分段模型的切割平面的位置和方向。 一旦选择,位置和取向信息被提供给磁共振(MR)成像系统的脉冲序列器。 脉冲序列发生器控制RF发射器和梯度放大器,以便在对应于模型工作站的切割平面的成像平面处引起被摄体的MR图像。 这允许快速,准确的图像平面选择,其可以由同时对主体执行医疗程序的操作者选择,辅助该过程。