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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2018
Applicant:
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Inventors:
Kieran O'Brien, Highgate Hill, AU;
Markus Barth, St Lucia, AU;
Steffen Bollmann, Dutton Park, AU;
Benedicte Marechal, Lausanne, CH;
Assignee:
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/24 (2006.01); G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/243 (2013.01); G01R 33/5616 (2013.01); G01R 33/56536 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a magnetic resonance method and apparatus, deficiencies in conventional masking in quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) are addressed by the inclusion of an additional step in the conventional QSM post-processing pipeline. In this additional step, atlas-based segmentation techniques, which have been developed for morphological applications such as T1w MPRAGE are used in order to provide the mask. This mask is then fed to the remainder of the QSM post-processing pipeline.