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Phase error measuring method, MR imaging method, and MRI system

US7323873B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 30, 2005
Grant dateJan 29, 2008
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Expiry dateApr 5, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01R33/4824
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The present invention is intended to provide a phase error measuring method capable of measuring a phase error occurring in each phase encoding direction that corresponds to the direction of a readout magnetic field gradient which is turned in units of a radian. The phase error measuring method in accordance with the present invention is implemented in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus that performs a K-space filling scan to define data in a K-space having readout lines formed along a Kx axis, a Ky axis, and a mixed axis of them. The phase error measuring method includes a plurality of phase error measurement steps of measuring a phase error that occurs in each phase encoding direction corresponding to the direction of a readout magnetic field gradient which is turned in units of a radian.

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