Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc.

Venkatesh Mani

Zahi A Fayad

Vitalii Itskovich

Melanie Suzanne Kotys

Stefan E Fischer

John T Fallon

Claudia Calcagno-Mani

Daniel D Samber

Chara Itskovich, Legal Representative

Philip Martyn Robson

Michael M Szimtenings

Sarayu Ramachandran

A dual magnetic resonance imaging method simultaneously acquires a first and a second time series of MR images wherein the temporal resolution of the first time series of images is larger than that of the second time series while the spatial resolution of the first time series of images is smaller than that of the second time series. Accordingly, in the context of DCE-MRI, the first time series can be used to determine the arterial input function (AIF) while the second time series can be used to determine the concentration time course in the tissue of interest, e.g. in a vessel wall. Therefore, both the AIF and the tissue time course can be acquired with their optimal dynamic signal range.

Simultaneous high spatial low temporal resolution magnetic resonance (MR) sequence for dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

A multicontrast-weighted acquisition of three images is performed with an MRI system. Each image is normalized and then mapped to a separate color channel. A composite color image is formed by combining all the color channels, and this image is displayed or analyzed to identify different tissue types therein.

Display and analysis of multicontrast-weighted magnetic resonance images

DIR imaging of blood vessels by administering a series of DIR preparation pulse modules at a repetition interval short enough that at least two DIR preparation pulse modules generally occur within each RR interval, and by acquiring image data for a plurality of slices following each DIR module.

Rapid multislice black blood double-inversion recovery technique for blood vessel imaging

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Venkatesh Mani