Rapid multislice black blood double-inversion recovery technique for blood vessel imaging

US7369887B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Mount Sinai School of Medicine · US
• Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Zahi Fayad · New York, US
• Vitalii Itskovich · Brooklyn, US
• Venkatesh Mani · New York, US
• Michael Szimtenings · Bonn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 26, 2003
• Grant date: May 6, 2008
• Expiry date: Jul 29, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/5673
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

DIR imaging of blood vessels by administering a series of DIR preparation pulse modules at a repetition interval short enough that at least two DIR preparation pulse modules generally occur within each RR interval, and by acquiring image data for a plurality of slices following each DIR module.