| MAGNETIC RESONANCE INNOVATIONS, INC. Patent applications |
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| 20110262017 | Method of Generating Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Images Using Susceptibility Weighted Imaging and Susceptibility Mapping (SWIM) - A method of generating a susceptibility map of an object utilizes a regularizing inverse function, oversampling k-space, removing external phase noise and rapid phase change effects, accounting for the known geometry of the object, and using modified SWI phase data to generate reasonable susceptibility maps and digital images therefrom, such as SWI images. The inventors refers to the inventive methods set forth herein as Susceptibility Weighted Imaging and Mapping (SWIM). | 10-27-2011 |
| 20090219023 | Method of and Software Application for Quantifying Objects in Magnetic Resonance Images via Multiple Complex Summations - A method comprises digitally representing a volume of space as a plurality of voxels and assigning real and imaginary values derived from magnetic resonance imaging data of the space to each of the voxels. Furthermore, the method comprises a steps of calculating a first complex summation of the real and imaginary values of a first set of the voxels, and calculating a second complex summation of the real and imaginary values of a second set of the voxels. Each set of voxels represents a different region of the volume of space. The regions are concentric. The method also comprises steps of using the first and second summations, along with another value quantitatively calculated from the magnetic resonance imaging data, to calculate a value that is dependent upon the approximate magnetic moment of an object within the volume of space, and digitally representing and storing said value. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090102481 | COMPLEX THRESHOLD METHOD FOR REDUCING NOISE IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES - A method of removing noise while preserving signal in nuclear magnetic resonance images combines steps of performing a magnitude threshold filter and performing a phase threshold filter on the image data. Preferably, a magnitude and phase connectivity algorithm is applied to pixels that fail to meet either the magnitude or phase thresholds. | 04-23-2009 |
