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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2014
Applicant:
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Inventors:
Yutaka Natsuaki, Riverside, CA (US);
Randall Kroeker, Winnipeg, CA;
Gerhard Laub, San Mateo, CA (US);
Peter Schmitt, Weisendorf, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01); G01R 33/567 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/5673 (2013.01); A61B 5/0044 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/7292 (2013.01); G01R 33/4818 (2013.01); A61B 2576/023 (2013.01); G01R 33/5601 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for using flexible triggered segmentation to optimize magnetic resonance imaging includes partitioning a k-space table into a plurality of k-space segments, each respective k-space segment comprising one or more phase-encoding steps from a plurality of slice-encoding lines. A cardiac cycle is monitored using an electrical signal tracking system and used to trigger acquisition of the plurality of k-space segments over a plurality of acquisition windows.