Cornell University

Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, Maintaining the Hospital for Special Surgery

Yan Wen

Zhe Liu

Yi Jing Wang

Pascal Spincemaille

Youngwook Kee

Jingwei Zhang

Alexey Dimov

Ek Tsoon Tan

Darryl Brett Sneag

Kang Wang

Mei Kei Maggie Fung

A computer-implemented method for suppressing fat in reconstructed magnetic resonance imaging data includes generating, via a processor, a first echo image and a second echo image from magnetic resonance scan data acquired of a subject with a magnetic resonance scanner utilizing a multi-echo steady state sequence. The computer-implemented method also includes estimating, via the processor, an echo phase difference between the first echo image and the second echo image to generate an echo phase difference image. The computer-implemented method further includes identifying, via the processor, voxels in the echo phase difference image having an extra chemical shift phase. The computer-implemented method even further includes removing, via the processor, signals of the voxels identified having the extra chemical shift phase in both the first echo image and the second echo image to generate a first fat-removed image and a second fat-removed image, respectively.

System and method for multi-echo steady-state sequence with improved fat suppression using adapted Dixon technique

Exemplary quantitative susceptibility mapping methods, systems and computer-accessible medium can be provided to generate images of tissue magnetism property from complex magnetic resonance imaging data using the Bayesian inference approach, which minimizes a cost function consisting of a data fidelity term and two regularization terms. The data fidelity term is constructed directly from the complex magnetic resonance imaging data. The first prior is constructed from matching structures or information content in known morphology. The second prior is constructed from a region having an approximately homogenous and known susceptibility value and a characteristic feature on anatomic images. The quantitative susceptibility map can be determined by minimizing the cost function. Thus, according to the exemplary embodiment, system, method and computer-accessible medium can be provided for determining magnetic susceptibility information associated with at least one structure.

System and method of robust quantitative susceptibility mapping

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