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System and method for fully phase-encoded magnetic resonance imaging using multiband radio frequency excitation

US9594134B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation · US

Inventors

Matthew R. Smith · Verona, US
Nathan Samuel Artz · Sun Prairie, US
Scott B. Reeder · Middleton, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 22, 2014
Grant date	Mar 14, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 14, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/4822
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Systems and methods for simultaneously acquiring three-dimensional data from multiple different frequency bins with a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system, and without frequency-encoding gradients, are provided. A multiband radio frequency (“RF”) pulse is used to excite spins associated with multiple different resonance frequency offsets, and a fully phase-encoded acquisition is used to acquire data, which may be spectrally-resolved data, from magnetic resonance signals formed in response to the multiband RF pulse.

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