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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2016
Applicant:

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yinghua Zhu, Fremont, CA (US);

Yi Guo, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Krishna S. Nayak, Long Beach, CA (US);

Robert Marc Lebel, Calgary, CA;

Assignee:

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/563 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/5635 (2013.01); G01R 33/4826 (2013.01); G01R 33/56325 (2013.01);
Abstract

A magnetic resonance imaging system may include: a magnet; gradient coils; an RF pulse transmitter; an RF receiver that receives MR signals from tissue that has been exposed to RF pulses from the RF pulse generator, gradient fields from the gradient coils, and a magnetic field from the magnet; a system controller that controls the magnet, gradient coils, RF pulse transmitter, and RF receiver so as to generate data representative of at least a portion of the composition of an object, including controlling the gradient coils and RF receiver so as to cause MRI data to be acquired that includes information about at least one attribute of the object at different points in time and that represents an incomplete sample of a portion of k-space that is a Fourier transform of the object; and a data processing system that generates one or more images of at least a portion of the object based on the MRI data.


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