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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2017
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Yuji Iwadate, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G01R 33/3415 (2006.01); G01R 33/567 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56509 (2013.01); G01R 33/3415 (2013.01); G01R 33/5676 (2013.01);
Abstract
An MRI apparatus comprising a signal analyzing unit for determining a feature quantity of a navigator signal, and obtaining data representing a temporal change of the feature quantity for each coil element; a transforming unit for transforming the data obtained for each coil element into frequency spectra FSto FS; and a selecting unit for selecting a coil element for determining a signal value of a body-motion signal for the subject from among coil elements Eto Ebased on the frequency spectra FSto FS.