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Michaela Schmidt

Peter Speier

Marie-Pierre Jolly

Michael Zenge

Edgar Mueller

Jens Guehring

Jens Wetzl

Mariappan S Nadar

Peter Schmitt

Jens Gühring

Andreas Greiser

Xiaoguang Lu

Stefan Assmann

Hui Xue

Christoph Guetter

Xiaoming Bi

Arne Littmann

Christoph Forman

Hasan Ertan Cetingul

Carmel Hayes

Randall Kroeker

Christof Krellmann

Seung Su Yoon

Manuela Rick

Aurelien Stalder

Andrea Hopf

Dorin Comaniciu

Bogdan Georgescu

Puneet Sharma

Frank Sauer

Saikiran Rapaka

Qiu Wang

Jun Liu

Ying Sun

Christine Lorenz

Edgar Müller

Alban Lefebvre

Peter Weale

Christian Geppert

Wilfried Landschuetz

Andreas Grimme

Mario Bacher

Thomas Blum

Teodora Chitiboi

Elisabeth Hoppe

Jordin D Green

Fasil Gadjimuradov

Aurélien Stalder

Mike Mueller

A frequency offset is selected based on similarity measures of multiple MRI images obtained from frequency scout measurements associated with multiple frequency offsets from a reference frequency of a magnetization excitation pulse. The similarity measure for each respective MRI image of the multiple MRI images is determined based on a comparison between at least one reference image and the respective MRI image. The at least one reference image is determined from the multiple MRI images based on spectrum information of each of the multiple MRI images. Such methods facilitate automatically determining/selecting a more optimal frequency offset for an MRI scan following a frequency scout scan, in particular, for an SSFP or a bSSFP pulse sequence, and thereby banding artifacts and/or flow-related artifacts can be reduced for the MRI scan.

Selection of frequency offset for an MRI scan

Systems and methods for predicting a location for acquiring a target view of an anatomical object of interest in an input image are provided. An input image of an anatomical object of interest of a patient is received. An output image is generated using a machine learning based network. The output image depicts a projection of a 3D image plane for acquiring a target view of the anatomical object of interest identified on the input image. The output image is output.

Automatic, dynamic, and adaptive slice planning for cardiac MRI acquisition

In a method for automatic motion detection in medical image-series, a dataset of a series of images is provided. The images can be of a similar region of interest that are recorded at consecutive points of time. The method can further include localizing a target in the images of the dataset and calculating a position of the target in the images to calculate localization data of the target, and calculating movement data of a movement of the target of temporal adjacent images of the images based on the localization data.

Method and device for automatic motion detection in medical image-series

A method is provided for generating a medical data set of a moving part of the human or animal body undergoing a cyclical movement such as cardiac movement. A raw data signal acquired by a magnetic resonance receiver coil arrangement is received. A magnetic resonance signal and a movement signal are separated from the raw data signal. At least two physiological phases of the moving body part are automatically assigned to the movement signal. The automatic assignment does not introduce a delay between the movement signal and the magnetic resonance signal. Time points used for triggering an acquisition of the magnetic resonance signal and/or for data post-processing of the magnetic resonance signal are determined or set.

Method for generating a medical data set of a moving body part

In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus for recording diagnostic measurement data of a heart of an examination object, the magnetic resonance apparatus is operated by a control sequence wherein an RF pulse excites nuclear spins with a flip angle of at least 60&#xb0;, the diagnostic measurement data are recorded in a coordinate system independent of the heart, and the basic magnetic field produced by the magnetic resonance apparatus is smaller than 1.0 tesla.

Method and magnetic resonance apparatus for acquiring diagnostic measurement data of a heart

In a method for computing MR images of an examination object that performs a cyclic movement, MR signals are detected over at least two cycles of the cyclic movement. In each of these cycles, data for multiple MR images are recorded. Over these cycles, a magnetization of the examination object that influences the MR images approaches a state of equilibrium in a second of these cycles is closer to the state of equilibrium than in a first of these cycles. Movement information for various movement phases of the cyclic movement of the examination object is determined using the MR images from the second cycle, with movement information of the examination object determined for each of the various movement phases. Movement correction of the examination object is carried out in the MR images of the first cycle using the movement information determined in the second cycle.

Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging with variable contrast

A method for acquiring cine images using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes selecting an asymmetric radial sampling scheme providing an asymmetric view of k-space corresponding to a desired image resolution. Radial k-space data is acquired using the asymmetric radial sampling scheme, wherein slice-orientation of the radial k-space data is continuously modified while acquiring the radial k-space data. A plurality of cine images are reconstructed from the radial k-space data using a compressed-sensing method.

Magnetic resonance imaging with asymmetric radial sampling and compressed-sensing reconstruction

A method of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of a volume undergoing repetitive motion includes obtaining source slice data indicative of a plurality of source slices during the repetitive motion, and obtaining anchor slice data indicative of an anchor slice during the repetitive motion. The anchor slice intersects the plurality of source slices. The source slice data and the anchor slice data are reconstructed. A three-dimensional image assembly procedure is implemented to generate, for each phase of the repetitive motion, volume data based on a respective subset of the reconstructed source slice data. For each phase of the repetitive motion, the respective subset of slices is selected based on a correlation of the source slice data and the anchor slice data along an intersection between each source slice and the anchor slice. The source slice data of the selected subset is corrected for misalignment with the anchor slice data.

MRI 3D cine imaging based on intersecting source and anchor slice data

In MR imaging of a predetermined volume segment of a living examination subject, the examination subject is stimulated with a defined stimulation pattern, MR data of the predetermined volume segment, are acquired, and MR images based on the MR data are generated that depend on the stimulation pattern. The predetermined volume segment is an internal organ or muscle tissue of the examination subject.

Method and magnetic resonance system for MR imaging of a predetermined volume segment of a living examination subject by stimulation of the examination subject

A method of image reconstruction for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a plurality of coils includes obtaining k-space scan data captured by the MRI system, the k-space scan data being representative of an undersampled region over time, determining a respective coil sensitivity profile for the region for each coil of the plurality of coils, and iteratively reconstructing dynamic images for the region from the k-space scan data via an optimization of a minimization problem. The minimization problem is based on the determined coil sensitivity profiles and redundant Haar wavelet transforms of the dynamic images.

MRI reconstruction with incoherent sampling and redundant haar wavelets

A method and system for automated view planning for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition is disclosed. The method and system automatically generate a full scan prescription using a single 3D MRI volume. The left ventricle (LV) is segmented in the 3D MRI volume. Cardiac landmarks are detected in the automatically prescribed slices. A full scan prescription, including a short axis stack and 2-chamber, 3-chamber, and 4-chamber views, is automatically generated based on cardiac anchors provided by the segmented left ventricle and the detected cardiac landmarks in the 3D MRI volume.

Method and system for automatic view planning for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging acquisition

A method for identifying a region of interest within a time sequence of images includes acquiring a time sequence of images comprising a plurality of image frames. Image segmentation is performed to segment a region of interest (ROI) from within each of the plurality of image frames of the time sequence of images. Manual edits are received for the ROI within one or more of the plurality of image frames. The manual edits are propagated to other image frames of the plurality of images. An extent to which each of the manual edits are propagated to other image frames is dependent upon a transformation function or deformation field used to propagate the manual edits and a weighing factor that is influenced by a distance in time between the other image frames and the frames that have been manually edited.

Interaction method for regions of-interest in time series images

In a method and magnetic resonance tomography apparatus for triggered implementation of a measurement (composed of partial measurements) in the magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, at least one image data set is determined from the data acquired within the scope of the partial measurements, and for triggering a reference point of the movement phase of the movement is used. The image data set is acquired in segments; the reference point is detected by a control device independent of a partial measurement, and the partial measurement following the detected reference point is conducted depending on the independently detected reference point. The wait time that specifies the interval from the end of the partial measurement to the beginning of the next partial measurement is adapted depending on the point in time of detection.

Method and magnetic resonance tomography apparatus for triggered acquisition of magnetic resonance data

In a method and device to evaluate a time series of in particular two-dimensional images of a contrast agent flow in at least one blood vessel of the human body within the scope of a test bolus measurement, wherein the acquisition of the time series begins with administration of the contrast agent, the time series of two-dimensional images or a time series of images derived from this is used as a time series of evaluation images, and in at least one evaluation image exhibiting a contrast agent signal, at least one point associated with a blood vessel is determined semi-automatically or automatically and transferred to further evaluation images. For every blood vessel discovered in this way, a temporal contrast agent course curve is determined (in particular via a fit) automatically from the image signal of the evaluation images at the at least one point and/or in a region around the marked point in the blood vessel and at least one item of contrast agent information that affects the temporal workflow of a subsequent measurement is determined from at least one contrast agent course curve.

Medical imaging device and method to evaluate a test bolus image series

In a method and magnetic resonance system for controlling a contrast agent injector used with a magnetic resonance imaging scanner of the system, a user interface is displayed at the control panel of the scanner, for configuring the operating parameters of the injector connected to the magnetic resonance imaging scanner and for controlling the injector in accordance with the operating parameters configured on said user interface, from the scanner control panel.

Method and apparatus for controlling a contrast agent injection for magnetic resonance imaging

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