摘要:
When distinguishing between fat and water in acquired MR data, a modified Dixon technique includes acquiring first and second signals Ii and I2, calculating the first and second components B and S of the signals Iχ and I2, where one of the first and second components corresponds to fat and the other corresponds to water, deriving two differential phase error candidates from them, and selecting a phase error candidate based on the assumption of smoothness of the disturbing field inhomogeneity. The exact determination of the absolute values of the water and fat components is then made by solving three signal equations for two variables that respectively correspond to water and fat, and is performed using for example a least square minimization with a Newton method.
摘要:
When distinguishing between fat and water in acquired MR data, a modified Dixon technique includes acquiring first and second signals Ii and I2, calculating the first and second components B and S of the signals Iχ and I2, where one of the first and second components corresponds to fat and the other corresponds to water, deriving two differential phase error candidates from them, and selecting a phase error candidate based on the assumption of smoothness of the disturbing field inhomogeneity. The exact determination of the absolute values of the water and fat components is then made by solving three signal equations for two variables that respectively correspond to water and fat, and is performed using for example a least square minimization with a Newton method.
摘要:
A dispenser (132), a magnetic resonance imaging system (100), and a method for using hyperpolarized contrast agent (304) during a magnetic resonance imaging examination. The dispenser comprises an attachment component (136) for a face piece (138). The face piece is adapted for receiving the surface of a subject (114) such that when the subject inhales hyperpolarized contrast agent enters the respiratory system of the subject. The dispenser further comprises a reservoir (300) adapted for receiving the hyperpolarized contrast agent. The dispenser further comprises a gas flow (406) tube connected to the attachment component and a vaporizer (406, 408, 412, 510, 602, 606) for vaporizing the hyperpolarized contrast agent in the gas flow tube into a hyperpolarized vapor. The dispenser further comprises a controller (402) for controlling when the vaporizer vaporizes the hyperpolarized contrast agent.
摘要:
MR method for generating MR images of an object to be examined located inside an examination volume by means of an MR device and for simultaneously locating an interventional instrument inserted into the examination object, which instrument is equipped with a locating device. For the reconstruction of an MR image (20) MR signals together with device-delivered location signals from the examination volume are then recorded, after which the locating of the instrument takes place by the assessment of the image characteristics conditioned by the location signals. For making it possible to determine the position of the interventional instrument in an extremely rapid way, the invention proposes that the recording of the MR signals be effected by recording successively a plurality of MR partial data records (16, 17, 18) with respective incomplete and preferably non-cartesian sampling of the local frequency spectrum assigned to the examination volume. Two locating data records (21, 22) each are extracted from each of the MR partial data records (16, 17, 18). The actual locating of the instrument then takes place in that a difference image (33) is reconstructed from the two locating data records (21, 22).
摘要:
A multilayer film having a lamination side and a heat-sealable side is described. The multilayer film comprises, a) an inner layer (i) ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymer; b) a coupling agent layer (ii) and a separate coupling agent layer (ii′), said inner layer (i) being interposed between and in contact with each of said coupling agent layer (ii) and said separate coupling agent layer (ii′); c) at least one further layer (iii), said separate coupling agent layer (ii′) being interposed between and in contact with each of said inner layer (i) and said layer (iii); d) at least one layer (iv), said coupling agent layer (ii) being interposed between and in contact with each of said inner layer (i) and said layer (iv); and e) a heat-sealable layer (v), said layer (iv) being interposed between and in contact with each of said coupling agent layer (ii) and said heat-sealable layer (v). Layers (i), (ii), (ii′), (iii) and (v) of the multilayer film contain 0.1 to 3 wt. % of a sorbitan monoester, based on the total weight of said multilayer film. Layer (iii) defines the lamination side of the multilayer film, and the heat-sealable layer (v) defines the heat-sealable side of the multilayer film. Packaging materials comprising the multilayer film are also described.
摘要:
At least two chemical species are imaged using magnetic resonance imaging with signal separation for two chemical species resulting in separate signal datasets for these two chemical species. First and second echo data are acquired at different echo times resulting in a first and second acquired complex dataset. The first and second acquired datasets are modelled by employing a spectral signal model of at least one of the chemical species. The modelling results in a first and second modelled complex dataset. The first and second modelled datasets include a first and second phase error and the separate signal datasets for the two chemical species. From the first and second acquired dataset and the first and second modelled dataset the separate signal datasets for the two chemical species are determined.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method of imaging at least two chemical species using magnetic resonance imaging with signal separation for the two chemical species, the method comprising:—acquiring first and second echo data at different echo times resulting in a first and second acquired complex dataset,—modelling the first and second acquired dataset, said modelling comprising a spectral signal model of at least one of the chemical species,—identifying in the first and second acquired dataset the voxels for which the modelling yields a single, unambiguous mathematical solution for the signal separation, and—resolving the ambiguity for the voxels for which the modelling yields more than one mathematical solution, if any such voxels remain.
摘要:
The present invention relates to silo covers comprising at least two layers, wherein an inner first layer facing the silo is a single- or multi-ply plastic film having oxygen permeability according to DIN 53380-3 at 23° C. and 50% relative humidity of no more than 500 cm3/(m2 d bar) and a water vapor transmission rate according to ISO 15106-3 at 23 ° C. and 85% relative humidity of at least 5 g/(m2 d), and in at least one ply in total contains at least 50% by weight of one or more materials from the group comprising polyamide, copolyamide, polyester, copolyester, polyethylene vinyl alcohol, polyvinyl alcohol and mixtures thereof, and at least one second layer, which is located on top of the inner layer and is separate from the inner layer, or easy to separate therefrom, or self-separating on the silo, composed of at least 70% by weight of materials from the group comprising polyethylene, polypropylene, copolymers of ethylene and other vinyl monomers, and copolymers made of propylene and other vinyl monomers.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a heat sealable, unoriented multi-layer film consisting of a sequence of layers (I) comprising one or more plies on the outer side of the film, a sequence of layers (II) also comprising at least one ply, denoted the heat sealable layer, on the other outer side of the film, optionally together with a coupling sequence of layers (III), also of one or more plies, between the sequences of layers (I) and (II), wherein the multi-layer film is characterized in that the sequence of layers (I) contains at least one layer (i) of a linear alternating copolymer (1) of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated olefin, optionally together with one or more layers (ii) containing polyamide, characterised in that the ratio between the thicknesses of the sequence of layers (I) and the total multi-layer film is no greater than 0.6 and no less than 0.15, that the total thickness of the multi-layer film is no less than 50 and no more than 300 &mgr;m, and that at least one melting point, determined using the DSC method to ASTM 3418, of one of the polymeric components present in the sequence of layers (II) is at least 50° C. lower than at least one melting point, determined using the DSC method to ASTM 3418, of one of the polymers present in the sequence of layers (I).
摘要:
An MR image (14) is reconstructed from MR signals (1, 2, 3, 4) that are acquired in parallel by a plurality of receiving coils (5, 6, 7, 8) with incomplete sampling of the spatial frequency space. The reconstructed MR image (14) is calculated iteratively as the solution of a system of linear equations. To provide a more highly developed method for parallel SENSE imaging, an iteration process (15) begins with a starting image (9) which approximates to the MR image to be reconstructed (14), in such a way that undersampling artifacts are suppressed in the intermediate solutions of the system of equations that are obtained during the course of the iteration process.