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Eric Breton

Denis Le Bihan

By synchronizing the radio-frequency excitations of a nuclear magnetic resonance experiment with the heart beat of a patient, notable improvement is obtained in the measurement of the molecular diffusion parameters of the tissues studied. In particular, good images of the brain are obtained in this way: the parameter represented is the molecular diffusion constant.

Method to measure the molecular diffusion and/or perfusion parameters of

The invention proposes an imaging process by nuclear magnetic resonance in which a calculated image is given corresponding to the molecular diffusion value at each point of an investigated medium. The diffusion image is obtained by comparing images relative to same sections of the medium and acquired during two excitation sequences, whereof one is not very sensitive to the diffusion and the other is particularly sensitive thereto. These two images undergo comparison in order to produce a diffusion image.

Process for imaging by nuclear magnetic resonance

In order to generate a radiofrequency excitation signal in an installation for NMR imaging, the envelope of the radiofrequency pulse is deduced from the shape of the selected cross-section which would result from application of a radiofrequency pulse having an envelope representing the desired selected cross-section shape.

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Eric Breton