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Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2017
Applicants:

New York University, New York, NY (US);

Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);

Inventors:

Martijn Anton Hendrik Cloos, New York, NY (US);

Tiejun Zhao, New York, NY (US);

Assignees:

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, NY (US);

SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS USA, INC., Malvern, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/483 (2006.01); G01R 33/50 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/4824 (2013.01); G01R 33/4835 (2013.01); G01R 33/50 (2013.01); G01R 33/5608 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of performing multi-slice acceleration for MR fingerprinting includes obtaining k-space data for MR volumes; applying controlled radio frequency (RF) pulses to the MR volumes; exciting a plurality of slices within the MR volumes by the RF pulses at a same time; and producing a plurality of fingerprints from the plurality of slices. At least one set of fingerprints is compressed, and a residual signal of a plurality of signal evolutions is reduced. The method additionally includes periodically switching a weighting between a first slice and a second slice of the plurality of slices.


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