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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2016
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tao Zhang, Stanford, CA (US);
Yuxin Chen, Stanford, CA (US);
John M. Pauly, Stanford, CA (US);
Shreyas S. Vasanawala, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univesity, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for creating a first MRI image and a second MRI image is provided. A first echo is read out. A second echo is read out. The first echo readout is used to generate a first image set, with each image pixel being a first linear combination of the first species and the second species. The second echo readout is used to generate a second image set, with each image pixel being a second linear combination of the first species and the second species. The first image set and second image set are combined to obtain a first combined image containing only the first species and a second combined image containing only the second species, comprising combining the first image set and the second image set to generate two pairs of solutions and using a mathematical optimization to choose a correct pair of solutions.