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Sense shimming (SSH): a fast approach for determining B0 field inhomogeneities using sensitivity encoding

US8018230B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM FREIBURG · DE

Inventors

Maxim Zaitsev · Glückstadt, DE
Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff · Erlangen, DE
Jurgen Hennig · Glückstadt, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 27, 2008
Grant date	Sep 13, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 22, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/5611
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The pursuit for ever higher field strengths and faster data acquisitions has led to the construction of coil arrays with high numbers of elements. With the SENSE technique it has been shown, how the sensitivity of those elements can be used for spatial image encoding. A method in accordance with the present invention, largely abstains from using encoding gradients. The resulting sensitivity encoded free induction decay (FID) data is then not used for imaging, but for determining field inhomogeneity distribution. The method has therefore been termed SSH for Sense SHimming.

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