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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2016
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, Tochigi, JP;
Andrew J. Wheaton, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara-Shi, Tochigi, JP;
Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and methods to effect MRI data acquisition with reduced noise are described. A readout gradient, having a first polarity used to acquire and store MRI data in k-space memory during analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) of MR RF signals during one TR interval, is continued at substantially a same amplitude and vector direction and used as an image volume selection gradient during a transmitted RF excitation pulse that begins a next TR interval before the readout gradient transitions to an opposite polarity. The acquired k-space data is then used to generate an MR image.