Synaptive Medical Inc.

Curtis Nathan Wiens

Chad Tyler Harris

Philip James Beatty

Jeff Alan Stainsby

Andrew Thomas Curtis

A fat saturation method for a magnetic resonance imaging system having a main magnet providing a magnetic field BThe method includes: driving a shim coil assembly with a first set of shimming currents to sufficiently alter a Bfield inhomogeneity of the magnetic field Bwithin a region that includes a first imaging volume of interest such that water saturation inside the region is reduced from before the first set of shimming currents are applied; applying a fat saturation pulse to the region; identifying the first imaging volume of interest from the region; driving the shim coil assembly with a second set of shimming currents to alter the Bfield inhomogeneity of the magnetic field Bwithin the first imaging volume of interest such that the Bfield inhomogeneity within the first imaging volume of interest is reduced; and obtaining magnetic resonance signals from the first imaging volume of interest.

Dynamic Bshimming for improved fat saturation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

An automatic protocolling system and methods involving a processor operable by way of a set of executable instructions storable in relation to a nontransient memory device, the set of executable instructions configuring the processor to: receive information relating to an initial protocol comprising an initial ordering of a plurality of sequences, the information comprising data relating to an interaction extent value of at least one of an imaging system and a patient as a function of time corresponding to each sequence in the plurality of sequences, the data relating to a time-integrated effect of each sequence in the plurality of sequences; and dynamically determine an alternative protocol comprising an alternative ordering of the plurality of sequences based on the time-integrated effect, whereby an alternative protocol is provided.

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Toronto, Canada

Curtis Nathan Wiens