Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Combining multiple MRI data acquisitions having different B1 inhomogeneities
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Application No.: US13438141Application Date: 2012-04-03
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Publication No.: US10429480B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Yuichi Yamashita , Masao Yui
- Applicant: Yuichi Yamashita , Masao Yui
- 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: JP2010-121641 20100527
- Main IPC: G01R33/565
- IPC: G01R33/565 ; G01R33/48 ; G01R33/561

Abstract:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, and a combining unit. The first acquiring unit is configured to acquire data by executing a pulse sequence based on a first radio-frequency pulse transmission condition. The second acquiring unit is configured to acquire data by executing a pulse sequence based on a second radio-frequency pulse transmission condition that is different from the first radio-frequency pulse transmission condition. The combining unit is configured to perform a combining process either on the data acquired by the first acquiring unit and the data acquired by the second acquiring unit or on data obtained by reconstructing the data acquired by the first acquiring unit and data obtained by reconstructing the data acquired by the second acquiring unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120187948A1 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-07-26
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