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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2017
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yo Taniguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Hisaaki Ochi, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Shirai, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihisa Sotome, Tokyo, JP;
Suguru Yokosawa, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoki Amemiya, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A plurality of subject parameter maps are acquired at high speed. In addition to using an imaging sequence for generating both a gradient echo and a spin echo in a single imaging sequence, one or more parameters such as the longitudinal relaxation time T1 and the apparent transverse relaxation time T2* are calculated using the gradient echo and another parameter such as true transverse relaxation time T2 is calculated using the spin echo. When a value of one parameter is calculated, a value of the parameter calculated at the time of calculating the other parameter can be used.