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Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 03, 2020
Applicant:

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;

Inventors:

George William Ferguson, Erlangen, DE;

Michael Koehler, Nuremberg, DE;

Constantin von Deuster, Zurich, CH;

Assignee:

Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56545 (2013.01); G01R 33/5617 (2013.01); G01R 33/56581 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to operating an MR system in which MR signals of an object under examination are acquired in an examining region using a multi echo imaging sequence, in which an RF excitation pulse and a plurality of RF refocusing pulses are applied. The techniques include determining a first accumulated phase of a magnetization in the object under examination. Then, a second accumulated phase of the magnetization in the object under examination is determined due to concomitant magnetic fields occurring between a second pair of consecutive RF pulses. Finally, it is determined whether a deviation from the predefined relationship is larger than a threshold and, if this is the case, a measure is applied in view of the fact that the deviation is larger than the threshold.


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