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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
May. 12, 2017
University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Samuel W. Fielden, Lewisburg, PA (US);
John P. Mugler, III, Charlottesville, VA (US);
G. Wilson Miller, IV, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Kim Butts Pauly, Stanford, CA (US);
Craig H. Meyer, Charlottesville, VA (US);
University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, in accordance with one embodiment, a method includes acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) data corresponding to bone tissue in an area of interest of a subject that is heated from the application of localized energy. The acquiring includes applying a three-dimensional (3D) ultra-short echo time (UTE) spiral acquisition sequence. The method also includes detecting, from the acquired magnetic resonance data, a change in MR response signal due to a change in at least one of relaxation rate and magnetization density caused by heating of the bone tissue; and determining, based at least in part on the change in the MR response signal, that the temperature of the bone tissue has changed.