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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Inventor:
Hasan Ertan Cetingul, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G01R 33/563 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56341 (2013.01);
Abstract
Resolution is enhanced for diffusion MR imaging. The tensors modeling the underlying water diffusion in brain tissues are used to interpolate other diffusion tensors, providing higher resolution diffusion biomarker images. Each diffusion tensor is represented by a pair of elements, the one in an 'orientation space' and another in a 'shape space.' The tensors are iteratively interpolated by averaging the aforementioned elements in separate mathematical spaces. The weighted average of the shape components of the diffusion tensors is computed in closed form, which decreases the runtime.