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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
May. 11, 2016
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Mitsuharu Miyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/5605 (2013.01);
Abstract
For the purpose of obtaining a spectrum suitable for acquiring information on a CEST effect, an MR apparatus comprises a Z-spectrum generating unitfor generating a Z-spectrum containing a CEST component representing a signal component affected by CEST and a baseline component representing a signal component unaffected by CEST based on data acquired by a plurality of sequences; a spectrum transforming unitfor transforming the Z-spectrum into a CPE spectrum; and first fitting unitfor calculating values of a plurality of coefficients included in a CEST term in an approximate expression of the CPE spectrum.