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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
May. 07, 2015
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Sebastian Weingartner, Heidelberg, DE;
Reza Nezafat, Waban, MA (US);
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, INC., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
An MRI method includes: performing a first data acquisition block of a pulse sequence to acquire a first MR data from a plurality of slices of a subject during a period of fully recovered longitudinal magnetization within the plurality of slices disposed at different locations in the subject; performing a second data acquisition block of the pulse sequence including a magnetization preparation module followed by a recovery period and an imaging sequence executed during the recovery period, to acquire a second MR data from the plurality of slices during the recovery period; and generating a Tmap of the subject based on the first MR data and the second MR data, of the plurality of slices.