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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2015
Applicant:
Albert-ludwigs-universitaet Freiburg, Freiburg, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Freiburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G01R 33/385 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/4828 (2013.01); G01R 33/385 (2013.01); G01R 33/4822 (2013.01); G01R 33/5608 (2013.01); G01R 33/5613 (2013.01); G01R 33/5614 (2013.01); G01R 33/5617 (2013.01); G01R 33/5618 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for accelerating magnetic resonance imaging is proposed. In 3D MRI, the method utilizes two sub-echo-trains in each repetition time for the simultaneous acquisition of two contrasts. The first sub-echo-train is a turbo spin echo train and the second sub-echo-train is a gradient echo train. The method acquires two different contrasts simultaneously in a single acquisition, for example one water image plus one fat image, or one turbo spin echo image plus one susceptibility weighted image.