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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:
Aug. 22, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2019
Applicant:

Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Miha Fuderer, Eindhoven, NL;

Silke Hey, Best, NL;

Assignee:

Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/54 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/54 (2013.01); G01R 33/4824 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging includes a phantom that is inexpensive to produce and enables simple, practical and fast assessment of image sharpness, in particular for checking image quality of MR imaging with spiral acquisition. The method includes subjecting a phantom, which comprises a volume filled with a bulk of granules of solid material surrounded by a liquid, to an imaging sequence, acquiring MR signals from the phantom, reconstructing an MR image from the acquired MR signals, and deriving a measure of the local image sharpness in two or more different image regions from the MR image, wherein each image region is a representation of a part of the phantom volume.


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