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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2016
Applicants:

Ohio State Innovation Foundation, Columbus, OH (US);

Research Institute AT Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH (US);

Inventors:

Jinghua Wang, Columbus, OH (US);

Zhong-lin Lu, Dublin, OH (US);

Nehal Parikh, Columbus, OH (US);

Lili He, Columbus, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/4818 (2013.01); A61B 5/004 (2013.01); A61B 5/0042 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G01R 33/543 (2013.01); A61B 2503/02 (2013.01); A61B 2503/045 (2013.01); A61B 2503/06 (2013.01); A61B 2503/08 (2013.01); A61B 2503/12 (2013.01); A61B 2576/02 (2013.01); A61B 2576/026 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for optimizing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocols are described herein. An example method can include receiving one or more MRI scanner settings for an imaging sequence; selecting at least one objective function from a plurality of objective functions; selecting an acquisition train length; selecting a k-space strategy; selecting one or more imaging parameters; and acquiring a magnetic resonance (MR) image using at least one of an optimized k-space strategy, an optimized acquisition train length, or optimized imaging parameters.


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