University Health Network

Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

Naeem Merchant

Graham Arnold Wright

Marshall Stephen Sussman

Lawrence M White

Warren D Foltz

An MRI system and method for acquiring motion-compensated MR image data of an object. The MRI system includes an MRI device for generating a uniform magnetic field through the object, magnetic field gradients for imaging a portion of the object and an RF excitation field for evoking NMR response signals from the object; a computer for controlling the operation of the MRI system; a motion compensation module for generating a plurality of navigator waveforms for evoking a corresponding plurality of navigator echoes from the portion of the object while the object is being imaged, and processing the plurality of navigator echoes by determining a subset of similar navigator echoes and removing rigid-body translation from the NMR response signals associated with the subset of similar navigator echoes; and, interface circuitry for generating the magnetic gradient, RF and navigator waveforms and sampling the NMR response signals and the plurality of navigator echoes.

Motion compensation for magnetic resonance imaging

An MR oximetry measurement of % O.sub.2 employs a pulse sequence comprised of a T.sub.2 preparatory segment and an image data acquisition segment. The pulse sequence is used in methods for measuring coronary flow reserve and for measuring myocardial oxygen consumption.

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Toronto, Canada

Naeem Merchant