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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2014
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Wilhelm Horger, Schwaig, DE;
Miriam Keil, Erlangen-Dechsendorf, DE;
John Mugler, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Dominik Paul, Bubenreuth, DE;
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Abstract
A magnetic resonance data acquisition unit is operated according to an imaging protocol wherein at least one echo spacing exists following radiation of an excitation RF pulse, via an RF channel that includes an RF amplifier, and a subsequent readout of an echo. Loading of the RF amplifier is reduced by lengthening the echo spacing in the imaging protocol. One or more refocusing RF pulses are radiated with a lengthened echo spacing.