Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method for correcting transmission unevenness due to RF pulse
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Application No.: US14303117Application Date: 2014-06-12
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Publication No.: US10175329B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Junichi Kachi , Hiroshi Takai , Yoshiteru Watanabe , Yoshinari Morita , Kazuya Tanoue
- Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Otawara-Shi, Tochigi-Ken
- Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Otawara-Shi, Tochigi-Ken
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: JP2012-022153 20120203
- Main IPC: G01R33/565
- IPC: G01R33/565 ; G01R33/24 ; G01R33/561 ; G01R33/56

Abstract:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an obtaining unit, a correction coefficient deriving unit, an amplification degree deriving unit, and a filtering processing unit. The obtaining unit obtains a distribution of a radio frequency magnetic field. The correction coefficient deriving unit derives, on a basis of the distribution of the radio frequency magnetic field, a transmission correction coefficient used for correcting a transmission unevenness. The amplification degree deriving unit derives, for each of pixels, an amplification degree by which noise components are amplified in the image due to the correction, on the basis of either the distribution of the radio frequency magnetic field or the transmission correction coefficient. The filtering processing unit performs a filtering process according to the amplification degree on each of the pixels in the image to which the correction is applied.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140292335A1 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD Public/Granted day:2014-10-02
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