Medical apparatus and computer program product for magnetic resonance imaging with interactive contrast optimization
US6888350B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 13, 2002 |
| Grant date | May 3, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 18, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01R33/546
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
In a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus and method, whereby an interactive contrast optimization is implemented by defining a multi-contrast sequence for exciting nuclear spins in a slice of a subject to be measured, defining parameters characteristic of the sequence, measuring a number of contrast versions of the slice in the form of raw data with the previously defined sequence, processing the raw data of the slice, and thereby generating a number of images of the slice that differ in contrast from one another and generating an image with improved contrast on the basis of an interactive real-time contrast variation of the images acquired by the multi-contrast sequence, via a user interface.
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