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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventors:
Sebastian Schmitter, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Pierre-Francois van de Moortele, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Xiaoping Wu, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Kamil Ugurbil, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/567 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01R 33/44 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01); G01R 33/563 (2006.01); G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G01R 33/24 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/113 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/567 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G01R 33/246 (2013.01); G01R 33/443 (2013.01); G01R 33/543 (2013.01); G01R 33/565 (2013.01); G01R 33/5612 (2013.01); G01R 33/5659 (2013.01); G01R 33/5676 (2013.01); G01R 33/56308 (2013.01); G01R 33/56509 (2013.01); A61B 5/113 (2013.01); A61B 5/721 (2013.01); A61B 5/7289 (2013.01); G01R 33/5673 (2013.01); G01R 33/56325 (2013.01); G01R 33/56563 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for designing and/or using radio frequency ('RF') pulses for in-vivo MRI applications, where the RF pulses are robust against errors due to physiological motion of organs during the respiratory cycle. For example, RF pulses are designed based on multi-channel B1+ maps correlated to different positions of the respiratory cycle.