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Method and system for phase-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging

US8710840B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Patrick Gross · Langensendelbach, DE
Antje Kickhefel · Erlangen, DE
Joerg Roland · Hemhofen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 24, 2011
Grant date	Apr 29, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 4, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/56563
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a method and system for phase-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging, a respective, complex image data set provided to a processor for each of at least two different echo times, the complex image data sets for the different echo times having been reconstructed from magnetic resonance data that acquired for the different echo times using an echo imaging sequence, at least one complex division image data set is determined in the processor by complex division of the complex image data sets for the two different echo times. The two different echo times define an echo time difference, so the resulting complex division image data set has phase components that are dependent on the echo time difference.

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