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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2020
Applicant:
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/4828 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G01R 33/543 (2013.01); G01R 33/5607 (2013.01); G01R 33/5608 (2013.01); G01R 33/5615 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic resonance imaging system and a method for obtaining magnetic resonance imaging data. The method comprises: applying a fat suppression pulse before the start of any repetition time of an imaging sequence; performing a plurality of echoes in the repetition time, wherein first image data when water and fat are in phase and second image data when water and fat are out of phase are obtained during each echo of the plurality of echoes; and obtaining fat-suppressed image data according to the first image data and the second image data.