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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 21, 2013
Applicant:

The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services, Rockville, MD (US);

Inventors:

Khaled Z. Abd-Elmoniem, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Ahmed M. Gharib, Bethesda, MD (US);

Roderic I. Pettigrew, Bethesda, MD (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/563 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); A61B 5/352 (2021.01); G01R 33/567 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/02007 (2013.01); A61B 5/004 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/352 (2021.01); A61B 5/7207 (2013.01); A61B 5/7221 (2013.01); A61B 5/7278 (2013.01); A61B 5/7285 (2013.01); A61B 5/7425 (2013.01); G01R 33/5602 (2013.01); G01R 33/56325 (2013.01); A61B 2576/02 (2013.01); G01R 33/5635 (2013.01); G01R 33/5673 (2013.01); G01R 33/5676 (2013.01);
Abstract

One aspect of the present subject matter provides an imaging method including: receiving a trigger signal; after a period substantially equal to a trigger delay minus an inversion delay, applying a non-selective inversion radiofrequency pulse to a region of interest followed by a slice-selective reinversion radiofrequency pulse to a slice of the region of interest of a subject; and after lapse of the trigger delay commenced at the cardiac cycle signal, acquiring a plurality of time-resolved images of the slice of the region of interest from an imaging device.


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