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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2013
Sebastian Weingärtner, Heidelberg, DE;
Mehmet Akçakaya, Cambridge, MA (US);
Warren J. Manning, Natick, MA (US);
Reza Nezafat, Newton, MA (US);
Sebastian Weingärtner, Heidelberg, DE;
Mehmet Akçakaya, Cambridge, MA (US);
Warren J. Manning, Natick, MA (US);
Reza Nezafat, Newton, MA (US);
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for controlling a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system to acquire images of a subject having inconsistencies in a cardiac cycle of the subject. The process includes receiving an identification of a predetermined point in a cardiac cycle of the subject and, thereupon, performing a saturation module configured to dephase magnetization within a region of interest (ROI) from before the predetermined point. The process also includes performing an inversion module configured to invert spins within the ROI and acquiring medical imaging data from the subject. A delay is inserted between the performance of the saturation module and the performance of the inversion module, wherein a duration of the delay is configured, with the saturation module, to control evidence in the medical imaging data of inconsistencies in the cardiac cycle of the subject by controlling a magnetization history of tissue in the ROI.