Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Siemens Healthineers Ag

Armin Nagel

Rene Gumbrecht

Patrick Liebig

Jürgen Herrler

David Grodzki

Dieter Ritter

Christian Eisen

Nuclear spins are excited in a region of interest in an object under examination by a radio-frequency pulse. During at least one phase of the radio-frequency pulse, excitation fields are transmitted while magnetic field gradients are simultaneously applied so that the magnetization of the nuclear spins moves on a trajectory through a transmission k-space. In a first phase of the at least one phase of the radio-frequency pulse, the trajectory moves at a radial distance around the center of the transmission k-space. The radial distance corresponds to the radius of a sphere superimposed with at least one radial harmonic.

Method for exciting nuclear spins

A method for determining a Bmap for, for example, performing an imaging magnetic resonance measurement using a magnetic resonance apparatus, includes measuring an original magnetic field distribution in a measurement volume of the magnetic resonance apparatus, and computing a final Bmap that describes a magnetic field distribution produced in the measurement volume of the magnetic resonance apparatus by setting a shim state. The magnetic field distribution produced in the measurement volume of the magnetic resonance apparatus by setting the shim state differs from the original magnetic field distribution.

Method for determining a B0 map

A pulse-design unit for creating pulse data for controlling a magnetic resonance system includes a data interface configured for receiving an examination scheme, and a calculation module configured for generating pulse data based on an examination scheme. The pulse-design unit includes a data grid and/or parameter values created from map pairs of a plurality of patients and is configured to select and/or calculate pulse data using the data grid and/or parameter values and a provided examination scheme. A method and a control device for controlling a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system and a related magnetic resonance imaging system are also provided.

Method and device for controlling a magnetic resonance imaging system

A computer-implemented method is disclosed for providing an actuation sequence which specifies transmit signals for at least one high-frequency transmit channel of an antenna arrangement of a magnetic resonance device for acquiring measurement data of an object under investigation by the magnetic resonance device. The method includes providing different actuation sequences, wherein each sequence is the result of an optimization method and which differs with regard to the value of an optimization parameter taken into account in the course of the optimization method. The method further includes providing a plurality of field distribution maps, (e.g., at least one Bmap and/or at least one Bmap), acquired by the or a further magnetic resonance device from the object under investigation. The method further includes selecting the actuation sequence to be used from the different actuation sequences depending on the field distribution maps and providing the actuation sequence to be used.

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Bubenreuth, Germany

Armin Nagel