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- Patent Title: MRI protocol for segmentation of an image detail using images acquired at two different magnetic field strengths
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Application No.: US15521643Application Date: 2015-10-30
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Publication No.: US10539640B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Radu Serban Jasinschi , Rudolf Mathias Johannes Nicolaas Lamerichs , Peter Boernert
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP14191230 20141031
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/075322 WO 20151030
- International Announcement: WO2016/066826 WO 20160506
- Main IPC: G01R33/56
- IPC: G01R33/56 ; G01R33/44 ; A61B5/055 ; G01R33/561

Abstract:
A magnetic resonance imaging protocol includes an acquisition segment to control an acquisition sequence to acquire magnetic resonance signals at a lower main magnetic field strength. A reconstruction segment controls reconstruction of a diagnostic magnetic resonance image from the magnetic resonance signals at a lower main magnetic field strength. A segmentation segment controls segmentation of a predetermined image detail of the diagnostic magnetic resonance image. In the magnetic resonance imaging protocol, the acquisition sequence has a set of imaging parameters that cause the image quality of the diagnostic magnetic resonance to be similar to the image quality of the magnetic resonance training images, e.g., acquired at 7 T. The segmentation segment includes an initialization portion which controls (i) access to a set of magnetic resonance training images acquired at main magnetic field of a higher main magnetic field strength (ii) registration of the diagnostic magnetic resonance image to one or more of the magnetic resonance training images and (iii) a segmentation proper applied to the diagnostic image to segment the predetermined detail from the registered diagnostic magnetic resonance image.
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