Method for time-resolved MR-imaging
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorGerhard Laub
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Abstract
For time-resolved MR imaging, magnetic resonance signals obtained from a subject are entered row-by-row into a raw data matrix divided into individual segments, the signals being acquired by excitation and phase coding of nuclear spins in the subject. An image is produced from every raw data matrix completely occupied with rows. A number of images are obtained by acquiring a number of raw data matrices at different times of a motion sequence. Signals of at least one segment are employed for two chronologically successive raw data matrices. The measuring time can thus be shortened.
Claims7
A method for time-resolved imaging with nuclear magnetic resonance signals, comprising the steps of:
- exciting and phase-encoding nuclear spins in a subject to produce nuclear magnetic resonance signals;
- reading out said nuclear magnetic resonance signals from said subject;
- entering said nuclear magnetic resonance signals dependent on their phase-encoding into respective rows of a raw data matrix divided into a plurality of segments by entering said signals into central rows of a raw data matrix and into upper edge rows and into lower edqe rows of said raw data matrix;
- producing a plurality of said raw data matrices at different points in time of a motion sequence of said subject;
- entering signals, comprising at least one of said segments, in common into two chronologically successive raw data matrices by alternatingly entering nuclear magnetic resonance signals from a segment in an upper edge row of a raw data matrix into a successive raw data matrix and entering nuclear magnetic resonance signals from a segment in a lower edge row of said successive raw data matrix into a next successive raw data matrix;
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- producing an image from each of said raw data matrices.
A method as claimed in claim I comprising the additional step of:
- emitting preparation pulses into said examination subject consisting of a radio-frequency pulse, a gradient pulse and a further radio-frequency pulse in chronological succession, before exciting said nuclear magnetic spins in said examination subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.