Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shimming assistance unit, shimming assistance method, MRI apparatus and magnet apparatus
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Application No.: US14903368Application Date: 2014-06-24
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Publication No.: US09964613B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Mitsushi Abe
- Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2013-143669 20130709
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/066737 WO 20140624
- International Announcement: WO2015/005109 WO 20150115
- Main IPC: G01V3/00
- IPC: G01V3/00 ; G01R33/3873 ; A61B5/055 ; G01R33/565 ; H01F7/20 ; G01R33/3875

Abstract:
The shimming work assistance unit performs singular value decomposition of a response matrix, which represents the relationship between an error magnetic field distribution and an adjusted magnetic moment placement distribution. From the multiple eigenmodes obtained, the eigenmodes are selected and added one by one in order from the eigenmode with the highest singular value, and the residual magnetic field error, which represents the fluctuation range of the difference between the magnetic field distribution, generated by the placement of the shimming magnetic moments corresponding to said eigenmode, and the error magnetic field distribution, is displayed on a display unit as a function graph of eigenmode order (line graph (1)).
Public/Granted literature
- US20160146912A1 SHIMMING ASSISTANCE UNIT, SHIMMING ASSISTANCE METHOD, MRI APPARATUS AND MAGNET APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-05-26
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