摘要:
The present invention relates to a system and method magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Furthermore the invention relates to the use of a material and to a computer program. In order to provide a technique which allows to prevent standing waves in an RF cage (3) of a MR imaging system (1) in a very cheap and simple way a MR imaging system (1) is suggested, which comprises a MR imaging apparatus (2) comprising an open magnet system (7), wherein operation of the MR imaging apparatus (2) creates a magnetic resonance field having a MR frequency, and which further comprises an RF cage (3), configured to enclose the MR imaging apparatus (2), wherein the walls (6) of the RF cage (3) are at least partly provided with a covering (5, 10), said covering (5, 10) is adapted in a way that the wavelength of the MR frequency within the covering (5, 10) is reduced.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a system and method magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Furthermore the invention relates to the use of a material and to a computer program. In order to provide a technique which allows to prevent standing waves in an RF cage (3) of a MR imaging system (1) in a very cheap and simple way a MR imaging system (1) is suggested, which comprises a MR imaging apparatus (2) comprising an open magnet system (7), wherein operation of the MR imaging apparatus (2) creates a magnetic resonance field having a MR frequency, and which further comprises an RF cage (3), configured to enclose the MR imaging apparatus (2), wherein the walls (6) of the RF cage (3) are at least partly provided with a covering (5, 10), said covering (5, 10) is adapted in a way that the wavelength of the MR frequency within the covering (5, 10) is reduced.
摘要:
The invention relates to a MRI system and to a method for producing an image with such an system. In order to provide a MR imaging technique with a high efficient MR signal acquisition, which provides a high level of comfort to a patient, a MRI system and method are suggested, where image data from an object are acquired while the object is moving with variable speed relative to the MRI system, and where the image data are combined and an image of the object is reconstructed.
摘要:
Coil elements (18) generate a B1 excitation field in an examination region (14), which B1 excitation field is distorted by patient loading (e.g., wavelength effects). Passive shimming elements (22, 24) are disposed between the coil elements and the subject in order to improve the B1 field uniformity. In one embodiment, passive shimming elements include one or more dielectric rods (55) disposed below the subject which generate no substantial MR proton signal and which have a permittivity of at least 100 and preferably greater than 500. In another embodiment, tubes (24) adjacent each coil element are supplied with a dielectric liquid, a thickness of the dielectric liquid between the coil element and the subject adjusting a phase of the B1 field generated by the coil element. Active B1 shimming may be combined with passive shimming elements (22, 24) to effect an improved RF field homogeneity result.
摘要:
Coil elements (18) generate a B1 excitation field in an examination region (14), which B1 excitation field is distorted by patient loading (e.g., wavelength effects). Passive shimming elements (22, 24) are disposed between the coil elements and the subject in order to improve the B1 field uniformity. In one embodiment, passive shimming elements include one or more dielectric rods (55) disposed below the subject which generate no substantial MR proton signal and which have a permittivity of at least 100 and preferably greater than 500. In another embodiment, tubes (24) adjacent each coil element are supplied with a dielectric liquid, a thickness of the dielectric liquid between the coil element and the subject adjusting a phase of the B1 field generated by the coil element. Active B1 shimming may be combined with passive shimming elements (22, 24) to effect an improved RF field homogeneity result.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance imaging method is presented for forming an image of an object, wherein a stationary magnetic field and temporary magnetic fields having a position dependent field pattern are applied, magnetic resonance signals are acquired by at least one receiver antenna, spins are excitated in a part of the object, MR signals are acquired during application of the position-dependent field patterns (G1, G2, . . . ) and a magnetic resonance image is derived from the sampled magnetic resonance signals. The field patterns are substantially non-linear, the number N of total field patterns is larger than 3, and at least N−1 field patterns are independently controllable in field strength. The magnetic resonance signals are acquired in a sub-sampling fashion.
摘要:
In a magnetic resonance imaging method flow quantities and diffusion quantities are measured in the presence of temporary magnetic gradient fields (gradient pulses). Signal amplitudes of the magnetic resonance signals and/or flow and diffusion quantities calculated from the magnetic resonance signals are corrected for non-linearities in the magnetic gradient fields.
摘要:
An image is processed taking into account the direction of a predominant structure of the image. Said predominant direction is derived from image information in the image. In particular, the covariance matrix having matrix elements depending on products of differences between pixel-values in separate directions is calculated. The eigenvectors of the covariance matrix correspond with the predominant direction of the image structure and the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix represent the strength of the structure in the image. The covariance matrix is computed locally, i.e. for separate regions in the images so as to take variations of the direction of predominant structures into account.
摘要:
In a GRASE magnetic resonance method, most profiles in k-space with a certain k.sub.y value are measured with different magnetic field read gradient polarity and at different time intervals from the excitation RF-pulse. The two resulting sets of measurements, with positive and negative read gradient polarity, respectively, are used to correct read gradient polarity dependent phase errors, in order to obtain reconstructed images in which the effects of these phase errors are greatly reduced. In an improved version the measurements are used to reconstruct images with a predictable T.sub.2 weighting.
摘要:
In magnetic resonance imaging various error sources lead to deterioration of the image quality. One class of errors is formed by errors which vary only slowly over the time required to sample a data line but vary substantially over the time required to acquire data for the complete magnetic resonance image. These error sources are, for example external magnetic fields, motion due to respiration, drift in amplifiers or drift phenomena in permanent magnets due to temperature influences. It is proposed to utilize mutually intersecting data lines in the Fourier domain so as to estimate these error sources and to use these estimates to correct the data sets obtained before execution of image reconstruction.