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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2015
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
David Grodzki, Erlangen, DE;
Esther Raithel, Dormitz, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for the examination of a predetermined volume portion of an object with a magnetic resonance (MR) fingerprinting procedure, an MR signal curve for voxels of the volume portion is acquired, and a comparison of the MR signal curve of the respective voxel is made with stored MR signal curves in order to determine the stored MR signal curve that conforms most closely to the MR signal curve, with the result of the comparison then being made available as an output. The comparison with the MR signal curve of the voxel is (initially) performed with a specific number of signal points of the MR signal curve. A quality measure is determined with which the quality of the most closely conforming stored MR signal curves is determined. The performance of the comparison for the respective voxel is repeated if the quality measure is below a predetermined quality threshold value, with the number of signal points being first increased by a difference number.