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Phased array coil for MRI

US7898252B2 · kind B2 · utility

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29References

23Claims

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Assignee

The University Of Queensland · AU

Inventors

Stuart Crozier · Brisbane, AU
Feng Liu · Dongguan, CN
Bing Keong Li · Ipswich, AU

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 9, 2006
Grant date	Mar 1, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 9, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/3415
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method and apparatus for ameliorating high-field image distortion in magnetic resonance imaging of tissue. Two separate scans of a target region are taken with different phase and amplitude values for each scan. The phase and amplitude values of each scan are selected to be complimentary so as to provide scans that have improved SNR when averaged using, for example, sum-of-squares averaging.

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