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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. 29, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 05, 2017
Applicants:

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;

The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);

Inventors:

Keith Aaron Heberlein, Charlestown, MA (US);

Jason Stockmann, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/565 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/4824 (2013.01); G01R 33/56572 (2013.01); G01R 33/481 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for increasing field of view (FOV) in magnetic resonance imaging includes determining linear field gradients of associated with a gradient coil of a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner and using the MR scanner to acquire a k-space dataset representative of a patient using a plurality of readout gradient amplitudes. An extended FOV image is generated based on the k-space dataset using an iterative reconstruction process to solve a forward model that incorporates a measurement of gradient distortion as a deviation from the linear field gradients.


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