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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:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 17, 2021
Applicant:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yo Taniguchi, Tokyo, JP;

Hisaaki Ochi, Tokyo, JP;

Tomoki Amemiya, Tokyo, JP;

Toru Shirai, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/543 (2013.01); G01R 33/4818 (2013.01); G01R 33/5608 (2013.01);
Abstract

In MRI, upon simultaneously generating computed images of multiple parameters, imaging time is efficiently reduced while preventing decrease in spatial resolution and SN ratio as much as possible. A plurality of original images is reconstructed from nuclear magnetic resonance signals acquired under various imaging conditions, and a computed image is obtained by calculation performed among the plurality of original images. The various imaging conditions include an imaging condition that a repetition time of an imaging sequence is different from one another, and upon imaging, the number of phase encoding steps is made smaller when the repetition time is long. An image is reconstructed in such a manner that a matrix size of the image obtained when the number of phase encoding steps is small is made equal to the matrix size of the image obtained when the number of phase encoding steps is large.


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