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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2019
Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Ananth J. Madhuranthakam, Coppell, TX (US);
Robert E. Lenkinski, Dallas, TX (US);
Xinzeng Wang, Dallas, TX (US);
Ivan Pedrosa, Dallas, TX (US);
BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a method and apparatus for improved magnetic resonance imaging with simultaneous fat and fluid suppression of a subject comprising: acquiring four images, in-phase (IP) and out-of-phase (OP) at a short and a long echo time (TE) using a single-shot turbo spin echo from one or more magnetic resonance imager excitations: processing at least a pair of IP and OP images at a short and a long TE using single-shot turbo spin echo using a Dixon reconstruction; processing the pair of IP and OP images; subtracting the long TE water-only image from the shared-field-map Dixon reconstruction from the short TE water-only image to provide a fluid attenuation; processing water-only and fat-only images at the short and long TE to generate quantitative fat-fraction map; and reconstructing one or more 3D magnetic resonance images.