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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
May. 09, 2017
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Cedars-sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Xiaoming Bi, Oak Park, CA (US);
Jianing Pang, Chicago, IL (US);
Zhaoyang Fan, Hacienda Heights, CA (US);
Matthias Fenchel, Erlangen, DE;
Gerhard Laub, San Mateo, CA (US);
Debiao Li, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for performing 3D body imaging includes performing a 3D MRI acquisition of a patient to acquire k-space data and dividing the k-space data into k-space data bins. Each bin includes a portion of the k-space data corresponding to a distinct breathing phase. 3D image sets are reconstructed from the bins, with each 3D image set corresponding to a distinct k-space data bin. For each bin other than a selected reference bin, forward and inverse transforms are calculated between the 3D image set corresponding to the bin and the 3D image set corresponding to the reference bin. Then, a motion corrected and averaged image is generated for each bin by (a) aligning the 3D image set from each other bin to the 3D image set corresponding to the bin using the transforms, and (b) averaging the aligned 3D image sets to yield the motion corrected and averaged image.