Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Hyun-seok Seo

Hyun-wook Park

Dae-ho Lee

Joon-soo Kim

Joon-sung Choi

Dong-chan Kim

Ki-nam Kwon

Hyun-sang Suh

Chang-heun Oh

Myung-sung Song

Seo-hee So

Provided are a method of obtaining a water-fat separation image and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus including a controller configured to obtain first partial k-space data, second partial k-space data, and third partial k-space data, respectively based on a first partial echo signal, a second partial echo signal, and a third partial echo signal, which are magnetic resonance signals corresponding to a plurality of echo times with respect to an object, obtain first reconstruction image data, second reconstruction image data, and third reconstruction image data with respect to the object, respectively based on the first partial k-space data, the second partial k-space data, and the third partial k-space data, and obtain first water image data, first fat image data, and first phase image data of the object, respectively based on the first reconstruction image data, the second reconstruction image data, and the third reconstruction image data, by using a Dixon technique.

Method for acquiring water-fat separation image, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus therefor

The MRI apparatus includes a processor configured to apply a gradient echo pulse sequence that makes a sum of gradients applied during one repetition time (TR) in a slice selection direction, a phase encoding direction, and a frequency encoding direction equal zero and maintains spins in an object in a steady state; alternately apply, while the gradient echo pulse sequence is continuously applied, a first radio frequency (RF) pulse having a first flip angle and a second RF pulse having a second flip angle that is different from the first flip angle at each TR interval; and generate an MR image based on an echo signal acquired when the spins are in the steady state.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method of generating magnetic resonance image

A magnetic resonance imaging method and a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus using a parallel image reconstruction are disclosed. Some embodiments provide a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus including a receiving coil configured to receive a magnetic resonance (MR) signal through a plurality of channels, and an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire k-space data for each channel by undersampling an MR signal received from the receiving coil, and to perform an inverse Fourier transform on the k-space data for each channel, to generate a hybrid-space for each channel, and an image processing unit configured to apply a parallel image reconstruction, while sliding a unitary window to channel-by-channel hybrid-space data, within an area corresponding to the unitary window, and thereby reconstruct missing data.

Method and apparatus for generating magnetic resonance image

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus includes a processor, and a memory storing a program including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to acquire first data of a subsampled magnetic resonance (MR) image, acquire, based on a learning model using a neural network, first reconstructed data with respect to rows of pixels in a first phase encoding direction of the first data of the subsampled MR image, and obtain a reconstructed image corresponding to the subsampled MR image, using the first reconstructed data.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method of reconstructing MR image by using neural network

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a gradient magnetic field controller which applies a spatial encoding gradient to a plurality of slices and applies a gradient magnetic field in a first direction with respect to the plurality of slices, a radio frequency (RF) receiver which receives respective magnetic resonance signals from each of the plurality of slices undersampled in a second direction different from the first direction, and an image processor which generates a respective magnetic resonance image of each of the plurality of slices based on the magnetic resonance signals received from the plurality of slices.

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image processing method thereof

Provided is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus for generating an MR image based on a steady state free procession (SSFP) sequence. The MRI apparatus includes: a radio frequency (RF) controller configured to apply to an object a first RF pulse corresponding to a first slice and a second RF pulse corresponding to a second slice; a gradient magnetic field controller configured to control respective gradient magnetic fields in a first direction corresponding to the first and second RF pulses, from among spatial encoding gradients, to have opposite polarities with respect to each other; a data acquisition unit configured to acquire first and second MR signals corresponding to the first and second slices; and an image processor configured to generate first and second MR images corresponding to the first and second slices, respectively, based on the acquired first and second MR signals.

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Hyun-seok Seo