Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080205735 | METHOD FOR GENERATION OF TEMPORALLY HIGH-RESOLUTION MR EXPOSURES - In a method for generation of MR exposures in an MR system, a number of under-sampled MR raw data sets are acquired with non-constant density in k-space. A density compensation is implemented dependent on the geometry of the structure to be depicted. The under-sampled MR raw data sets are translated into a Cartesian coordinate system. Fourier transformation of the translated raw data sets in classical three-dimensional space ensues to generate under-sampled MR images. An averaged MR image is generated on the basis of a number of the under-sampled MR raw data sets. The MR exposures are produced by multiplication of the under-sampled MR images with the averaged MR image. | 08-28-2008 |
20090092304 | Apparatus and method for remotely controlling in real time measurement parameters of a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner - Apparatus for remotely controlling parameters of an image scanning apparatus includes a software interface for translating commands from an external application for providing scanner control commands to a scanner control machine for control of the parameters; and the software interface includes syntax software for translating the commands from the external application into a given syntax for providing the scanner control commands. | 04-09-2009 |
20090290776 | Automatic Determination Of Field Of View In Cardiac MRI - A method for automatically determining a field of view for performing a subsequent medical imaging study includes acquiring one or more preliminary images. A body mask is generated by thresholding the preliminary images and identifying a largest connected component. A boundary mask is obtained from the boundary of the generated body mask. A rectangular bounding box is fit to the obtained boundary mask. The rectangular bounding box is used as a field of view for performing a subsequent medical imaging study. | 11-26-2009 |
20100085051 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO DETERMINE AN INVERSION TIME VALUE OF TISSUE BY MEANS OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE TECHNOLOGY - In a method to determine an inversion time value for contrast improvement between different tissue in a contrast agent-supported magnetic resonance imaging, a series of magnetic resonance images of an imaging area is acquired using an inversion recovery sequence with different inversion times. A structure in the magnetic resonance images is segmented and a time response of the signal intensity of image elements corresponding to one another in the magnetic resonance images of the segmented structure is automatically determined. Minima of the signal intensity in the segmented structure are determined automatically and associated with the associated inversion time values. The optimal inversion time value for contrast improvement is automatically determined from the inversion time values that have been associated with the minima of the signal intensity in the segmented structure. | 04-08-2010 |
20100145182 | METHOD TO CONTROL THE ACQUISITION OPERATION OF A MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE IN THE ACQUISITION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE DATA OF A PATIENT, AND ASSOCIATED MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE - In a method to control the acquisition operation of a magnetic resonance device in the acquisition of magnetic resonance data of a patient, and associated magnetic resonance device, patient-related acquisition parameters are determined, technical control parameters are automatically determined taking into account the patient-related acquisition parameters, and the magnetic resonance device is controlled according to the control parameters. | 06-10-2010 |
20100198373 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL THEREOF - A method to control a magnetic resonance system includes at least one protocol step for measurement data acquisition with the magnetic resonance system, and at least one operator interaction step which allows an operator to enter information that affects at least one subsequent step in the control of the magnetic resonance system. | 08-05-2010 |
20100253335 | METHOD FOR IMAGE DATA ACQUISITION WITH A MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE - In a method for image data acquisition of a region of interest in a subject with a magnetic resonance device, wherein, to establish the field of view, a minimal geometric shape encompassing the subject to be acquired and/or the surface of the subject is determined automatically from previously acquired localizer exposures as aliasing information for each exposure, at least one slice plane is determined for the acquisition of the region, and the phase coding direction and/or the extent of the field of view in the phase coding direction is determined for every slice plane using the aliasing information. | 10-07-2010 |
20100277173 | METHOD AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS FOR TRIGGERED ACQUISITION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE DATA - In a method and magnetic resonance tomography apparatus for triggered implementation of a measurement (composed of partial measurements) in the magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, at least one image data set is determined from the data acquired within the scope of the partial measurements, and for triggering a reference point of the movement phase of the movement is used. The image data set is acquired in segments; the reference point is detected by a control device independent of a partial measurement, and the partial measurement following the detected reference point is conducted depending on the independently detected reference point. The wait time that specifies the interval from the end of the partial measurement to the beginning of the next partial measurement is adapted depending on the point in time of detection. | 11-04-2010 |
20120121152 | Method and System for Automatic View Planning for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging acquisition - A method and system for automated view planning for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition is disclosed. The method and system automatically generate a full scan prescription using a single 3D MRI volume. The left ventricle (LV) is segmented in the 3D MRI volume. Cardiac landmarks are detected in the automatically prescribed slices. A full scan prescription, including a short axis stack and 2-chamber, 3-chamber, and 4-chamber views, is automatically generated based on cardiac anchors provided by the segmented left ventricle and the detected cardiac landmarks in the 3D MRI volume. | 05-17-2012 |
20120148129 | Prior Enhanced Compressed Sensing (PRINCE-CS) Reconstruction for Dynamic 2D-Radial Cardiac MRI - A reconstructed image is rendered from a set of MRI data by first estimating an image with an area which does not contain artifacts or has an artifact with a relative small magnitude. Corresponding data elements in the estimated image and a trial image are processed, for instance by multiplication, to generate an intermediate data set. The intermediate data set is transformed and minimized iteratively to generate a reconstructed image that is free or substantially free of artifacts. In one embodiment a Karhunen-Loeve Transform (KLT) is used. A sparsifying transformation may be applied to generate the reconstructed image. The sparsifying transformation may be also not be applied. | 06-14-2012 |
20120249144 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO GENERATE SPATIALLY RESOLVED QUASI-T2-WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE SIGNALS - In a magnetic resonance method and device to generate spatially resolved, quasi-T2-weighted magnetic resonance signals from an examination region, an initial magnetization is flipped in a first direction with a first gradient-balanced SSFP sequence. Spatially coded first magnetic resonance signals from the first gradient-balanced SSFP sequence are detected during the transient portion of the first SSFP sequence. An initial magnetization is flipped in a direction opposite the first direction with a second gradient-balanced SSFP sequence. Spatially coded second magnetic resonance signals from the second gradient-balanced SSFP sequence during the transient portion of the second gradient-balanced SSFP sequence. The first and second magnetic resonance signals are constructively superimposed into overlay signals. Image data with a predominant T2 weighting are reconstructed from the overlay signals, or are used for spatially resolved estimation of the T2 relaxation time constant. | 10-04-2012 |
20120268125 | DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF A DEPHASING GRADIENT PAIR - In a method for optimization of a flow coding with switching of an additional bipolar dephasing gradient pair, used in a magnetic resonance (MR) phase contrast angiography, the strength of the flow coding is selected depending on the flow velocity in the vessels that should be depicted. MR signals of an examination region are acquired with continuously running overview measurements, with an operator-selected flow coding strength. After the selected flow coding strength is adopted automatically for the next measurement of the continuously running overview measurements, and two partial measurements with different flow codings are implemented for each selected strength and a phase difference image from the two partial measurements is calculated and depicted in real time, and the selected flow coding strength is automatically adopted for the MR phase contrast angiography. | 10-25-2012 |
20130039549 | Method to Process Medical Image Data - A method to process medical image data has the following features. Immediately compressed raw data are acquired by an imaging medical technology apparatus. The compressed raw data are stored. In addition to the compressed raw data, processing data are stored which are provided to generate output data from the compressed raw data, wherein the file size of the compressed raw data and the processing data in total is less than the file size of the output data. | 02-14-2013 |
20130113482 | METHOD TO GENERATE AN MR IMAGE, AND CORRESPONDING MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM - To generate an MR image, acquired MR data are entered into k-space on multiple uniform trajectories in k-space within a predetermined time period. The trajectories are acquired chronologically in a predetermined order before a predetermined point in time, and in a different order after the point in time. The i-th trajectory after the point in time in the different order is adjacent to the (n−i+1)-th trajectory in the predetermined order (n is the number of trajectories acquired before and after the point in time). Two trajectories are adjacent if a distance between them is less than a predetermined threshold. Except for the (n−i+1)-th trajectory, none of the trajectories acquired before the point in time has a distance from the i-th trajectory that is less than the threshold. The predetermined time period is set to be at a middle of a time period after an RF excitation pulse, such that a contrast change within the predetermined time period proceeds as linearly as possible over time. | 05-09-2013 |
20130200893 | Determination of a Measuring Sequence for a Magnetic Resonance System - A method and a measuring-sequence-determining device for determining a measuring sequence for a magnetic resonance system based on at least one intra-repetition-interval time parameter are provided. During the determination of the measuring sequence in a gradient-optimization method, gradient-pulse parameters of the measuring sequence are automatically optimized to reduce at least one gradient-pulse-parameter maximum value. As a boundary condition in the gradient-optimization method, the intra-repetition-interval time parameter is kept constant at least within a specified tolerance value. | 08-08-2013 |
20130259337 | Cardiac Chamber Volume Computation from Contours and Base Plane in Cardiac MR Cine Images - A system receives cardiac cine MR images consists of multiple slices of the heart over time. A series of short axis images slices are received. Long axis images are also received by the system, wherein a base plane defined by landmark points is detected. An intersection of the base plane with a contour of a heart chamber is determined for a plurality of slices in the short axis image. A volume for each of the contour slices covering the heart chamber, including for contours that are limited by base plane intersections, is evaluated. All slice volumes are summed to determine a total volume of the chamber. In one embodiment the chamber is a left ventricle and the landmark is a mitral valve. An ejection factor is determined. | 10-03-2013 |
20140015528 | METHOD AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPARATUS TO REDUCE MOVEMENT ARTIFACTS IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES - In a method and apparatus to reduce movement artifacts in magnetic resonance images an essentially unmoving area of a region to be imaged is located in a region of high sensitivity of a first group of individual local antennas, and a moving area is located in the region of high sensitivity of a second group of local antennas. Spatially coded magnetic resonance signals are received by a first group of the local antennas and are individually processed further. Spatially coded nuclear magnetic resonance signals are received by the second group of local antennas and are combined with a weighting, using weighting factors. The weighting factors are determined so as to reduce gradient of the weighted, combined, spatially dependent sensitivity of the local antennas of the second group. | 01-16-2014 |
20140323850 | METHOD AND EKG TRIGGER DEVICE FOR CORRECTING AN EKG SIGNAL IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE ACQUISITION - In a method to correct an EKG signal, the EKG signal is acquired, and used for R-spike triggering, during a magnetic resonance (MR) image acquisition sequence that produces interference signals in the EKG signal generated by gradient jumps, wherein the gradient jumps repeat at a fixed time interval, and wherein the duration of a cardiac cycle measured via the EKG signal is at least five times the time interval. During at least a first cardiac cycle, immediately after detection of the R-spike in the EKG signal no detection of the R-spike for triggering takes place for a dead time that is shorter than the duration of the cardiac cycle and during which the MR sequence is already running, and the EKG signal is acquired in that dead time as a reference signal. The reference signal is analyzed to extract interference signals that respectively repeat after the time interval, which are used to determine a correction signal having a duration equal to the time interval. During the further execution of the MR sequence, the correction signal, which is synchronously repeated in the time interval, at least outside of the dead time, is used to correct the measured EKG signal. | 10-30-2014 |