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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2014
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Lingzhi Hu, Cleveland, OH (US);
Christian Stehning, Hamburg, DE;
Zhiqiang Hu, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Lingxiong Shao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G01R 33/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/4816 (2013.01); G01R 33/481 (2013.01); G01R 33/4828 (2013.01); G01R 33/5608 (2013.01); G01R 33/58 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical imaging system () includes a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner (), and a MR reconstruction unit (). The MR scanner () applies a multi-echo ultra-short TE (UTE) with mDixon pulse sequence to a subject () and receives MR data () representing at least a portion of the subject. The MR reconstruction unit () reconstructs a Free Induction Decay (FID) image (), and one or more echo magnitude images (), one or more phase images (), an in-phase image (), a water image (), and a fat image () from the received MR data ().