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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/565 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01); G01R 33/563 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56509 (2013.01); A61B 5/0042 (2013.01); A61B 5/0044 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/7207 (2013.01); G01R 33/4822 (2013.01); G01R 33/5611 (2013.01); G01R 33/5616 (2013.01); G01R 33/5618 (2013.01); G01R 33/56308 (2013.01); A61B 2576/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods of processing MRI image data to reduce or eliminate motion-related artifacts in MRI images includes: electronically repeatedly acquiring sets of 2D or 3D k-space data of a target region of a subject using at least one MRI pulse sequence; electronically applying a bootstrapping procedure to produce a large number of images from the acquired k-space data; then electronically evaluating the images produced by the bootstrapping procedure; and electronically identifying an image with a minimal motion-related artifact level from the evaluation of the images produced by the bootstrapping procedure.