Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance spectroscopic image computing method
- Patent Title (中): 磁共振成像装置和磁共振光谱图像计算方法
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Application No.: US12523259Application Date: 2007-12-17
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Publication No.: US08258785B2Publication Date: 2012-09-04
- Inventor: Satoshi Hirata , Yoshitaka Bito , Kiyoharu Tanaka
- Applicant: Satoshi Hirata , Yoshitaka Bito , Kiyoharu Tanaka
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP.
- Priority: JP2007-008008 20070117
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/074205 WO 20071217
- International Announcement: WO2008/087822 WO 20080724
- Main IPC: G01V3/00
- IPC: G01V3/00

Abstract:
An object of the invention is to obtain a magnetic resonance spectroscopic image to which the MAC summation is applied with high accuracy and in short time, even though a phase characteristic distribution of the MAC has a spatial non-uniformity, in the MRSI measurement using a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus provided with a MAC. Using a non-water-suppressed image signal with high SNR, obtained in the non-water-suppressed measurement (a reference measurement) without water suppression, a correction value for correcting the phase distortion for the MAC summation is calculated on each pixel in each coil. After correcting a phase on each pixel in each coil of a main-scan image signal measured under suppressing water (water-suppressed image signal) using the corrective value, signal adding operation (summation) is performed. Then, a phase correction in a spectrum-axis is to be performed on the summed spectrum signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100013481A1 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGE COMPUTING METHOD Public/Granted day:2010-01-21
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