摘要:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a plurality of radio frequency coils (34) that acquire variable density sensitivity encoded data that is undersampled at least away from the center of k-space. A reconstruction processor (52) for each coil reconstructs: a regularization image reconstructed from a higher density portion of the variable density sensitivity encoded data disposed at or near a center of k-space acquired by that coil; and a folded image reconstructed from the variable density sensitivity encoded data acquired by that coil. An unfolding processor (66) unfolds the folded images. The unfolding is regularized by the regularization images.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a plurality of radio frequency coils (34) that acquire variable density sensitivity encoded data that is undersampled at least away from the center of k-space. A reconstruction processor (52) for each coil reconstructs: a regularization image reconstructed from a higher density portion of the variable density sensitivity encoded data disposed at or near a center of k-space acquired by that coil; and a folded image reconstructed from the variable density sensitivity encoded data acquired by that coil. An unfolding processor (66) unfolds the folded images. The unfolding is regularized by the regularization images.
摘要:
A system is described for the acquisition of a magnetic resonance scan of a subject. The system is particularly useful when the subject which contains a volume of interest which is larger than the field of view of the system and when the scan includes a time dependent signal. The system also comprising a subject support capable of movement relative to the field of view. The system presented is arranged to perform at least a first scan and a second scan, the first scan being arranged so that signal is acquired from the central region of k-space as the subject support is moved through the field of view in a first direction and the second scan being arranged so that signal is acquired from the periphery of k-space as the subject support is moved through the field of view in a second direction.
摘要:
A novel magnetic resonance imaging method is described, for forming an image of an object from a plurality of signals sampled in a restricted homogeneity region of a main magnet field of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus. A patient disposed on a table is moved continuously through the bore of the main magnet and spins in a predetermined area of the patient are excited by an excitation pulse from a transmitter antenna, such that an image is formed over a region exceeding largely the restricted region. Data is undersampled in the restricted region by means off at least one receiver antenna in a plurality of receive situations being defined as a block of measurements contiguous in time having preserved magnetisation and presaturation conditions within the excited area of the patient. Fold-over artefacts due to said undersampling are unfolded by means of the known sensitivity pattern of the receiver antenna and/or the properties of selected factors determining said receive situations.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance imaging method for forming an image of an object from a plurality of signals acquired by an array of multiple receiver antennae, wherein spins are excitated in a part of the object. MR signals are measured along a predetermined trajectory containing a plurality of lines in k-space by application of a read gradient and other gradients. Further, a navigator gradient is applied for the measurement of navigator MR signals and an additional gradient is applied in order to achieve diffusion sensitivity of the MR signal, wherein phase corrections are determined from phases and moduli of the navigator MR signals so as to correct the measured MR signals. An image of the part of the object is determined from the corrected MR signals. The corrected phase is determined from the weighted phase difference between a reference navigator signal for each antenna and the actual navigator MR signal of said antenna.
摘要:
The invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus including an array of two or more RF antennas for transmitting RF pulses to and receiving MR signals from a subject positioned in an examination volume, and where the RF antennas have spatial transmit and receive sensitivity profiles. The apparatus is configured to control the temporal succession, the phase, and the amplitude of the RF feeding of each individual RF antenna. The apparatus is also configured to determine the phases and amplitudes from the spatial transmit sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas, and reconstruct a MR image from a combination of the received MR signals received via the individual RF antennas and from the spatial receive sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas. Further, the apparatus is configured to determine the spatial transmit sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas from the spatial receive sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas, or vice versa.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance imaging method employs sub-sampled signal acquisition from a number of receiver coils such as surface coils. A full field-of-view magnetic resonance image is reconstructed on the basis of the sensitivity profiles of the receiver coils, for example on the basis of the SENSE technique. The reconstruction is carried out mathematically as an optimization, for example, requiring a minimum noise level in the magnetic resonance image. According to the invention, a priori information is also involved in the reconstruction and the a priori information is taken into account especially as a constraint in optimization.
摘要:
The invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising an array of two or more RF antennas (9) for transmitting RF pulses to and receiving MR signals from a body (7) of a patient positioned in an examination volume (2), the RF antennas (9) having spatial transmit and receive sensitivity profiles. The apparatus is arranged to: control the temporal succession, the phase, and the amplitude of the RF feeding of each individual RF antenna (9), the phases and amplitudes being determined from the spatial transmit sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas (9), and reconstruct a MR image from a combination of the received MR signals received via the individual RF antennas (9) and from the spatial receive sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas (9). The invention proposes that the apparatus is further arranged to: determine the spatial transmit sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas (9) from the spatial receive sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas (9), or determine the spatial receive sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas (9) from the spatial transmit sensitivity profiles of the RF antennas (9).
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.