General Electric Company

Isabelle Heukensfeldt Jansen

Christopher Judson Hardy

Ron Wein

Sangtae Ahn

Itzik Malkiel

Rafael Shmuel Brada

Michael Rotman

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes control and analysis circuitry having programming to acquire magnetic resonance (MR) data using coil elements of the MRI system, analyze the MR data, and reconstruct the MR data into MR sub-images. The system also includes a trained neural network associated with the control and analysis circuitry to transform the MR sub-images into a prediction relating to a presence and extent of motion corruption in the MR sub-images. The programming of the control and analysis circuitry includes instructions to control operations of the MRI system based at least in part on the prediction of the trained neural network.

MRI system and method using neural network for detection of patient motion

A system and method for detecting, timing, and adapting to patient motion during an MR scan includes using the inconsistencies between calculated images from different coil-array elements to detect the presence of patient motion and, together with the k-space scan-order information, determine the timing of the motion during the scan. Once the timing is known, various actions may be taken, including restarting the scan, reacquiring those portions of k-space acquired before the movement, or correcting for the motion using the existing data and reconstructing a motion-corrected image from the data.

MRI system and method for detection and correction of patient motion

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Schenectady, NY, United States of America

Isabelle Heukensfeldt Jansen