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Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 03, 2019
Applicant:

The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);

Inventors:

Kawin Setsompop, Charlestown, MA (US);

Lawrence L. Wald, Cambridge, MA (US);

Fuyixue Wang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/482 (2013.01); G01R 33/5602 (2013.01); G01R 33/5616 (2013.01); G01R 33/56563 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI') that address the geometric distortions and blurring common to conventional echo planar imaging ('EPI') sequences, and that provide new temporal signal evolution information across the EPI readout, are described. Echo planar time-resolved imaging (“EPTI”) schemes are described to implement an accelerated sampling of a hybrid space spanned by the phase encoding dimension and the temporal dimension. In general, each EPTI shot covers a segment of this hybrid space using a zigzag trajectory with an interleaved acceleration in the phase-encoding direction. The hybrid space may be undersampled and a tilted reconstruction kernel used to synthesize additional data samples.


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