Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 磁共振成像装置
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Application No.: US12912385Application Date: 2010-10-26
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Publication No.: US08344729B2Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- Inventor: Masahiro Takizawa , Testuhiko Takahashi
- Applicant: Masahiro Takizawa , Testuhiko Takahashi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Priority: JP2005-216660 20050727
- Main IPC: G01V3/00
- IPC: G01V3/00

Abstract:
An MRI apparatus includes an imaging means being provided with a means for generating magnetic fields respectively of a static magnetic field, a gradient magnetic field, and an RF magnetic field, and a means for receiving an echo signal generated from a subject, the imaging means being for measuring echo data associated with at least one measurement trajectory in k-space, while varying angles with respect to a coordinate axis in the k-space of the measurement trajectory, so as to collect at least one measured data for each of the angles; and an image reconstruction means for rearranging the measured data in the k-space and reconstructing an image; wherein, the image reconstruction means calculates a phase for correction based on standard data selected from the measured data for each of the angles, prior to rearranging the measured data in the k-space, and performs a phase correction as to the measured data, by using the phase for correction being calculated. With the procedure above, it is possible to reduce an artifact caused by the nonlinearity of the gradient magnetic field and/or inhomogeneities of the magnetic field, without extending the imaging time.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110089948A1 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-04-21
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