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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2019
Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sagar Mandava, Tucson, AZ (US);
Maria I. Altbach, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ali Bilgin, Tucson, AZ (US);
Diego R. Martin, Tucson, AZ (US);
Mahesh Bharath Keerthivasan, Tucson, AZ (US);
Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (US);
Abstract
A method for producing a streak-suppressed magnetic resonance (MR) image of a subject includes generating an interference covariance matrix {circumflex over ( )}R front N coil images Ij (x,y), j={1, 2, . . . , N}, each of the N coil images Ij (x,y) corresponding to MR signals detected by a respective one of a phased array of N coils of an MRI scanner. The MR signals originate in voxels of the subject corresponding to an artifact-corrupted region of a coil image. Coordinates (x,y) correspond to a location within a cross-sectional plane of the subject. The method also includes, for subject-regions of cross-sectional plane centered at a respective location (x,y), determining a coil weight vector W (x,y) from {circumflex over ( )}R. The method also includes generating the streak-suppressed MR image as a weighted sum of the coil images Ij (x,y), each weight of the weighted sum being Wj* (x,y), a jelement of a complex conjugate of coil weight vector W (x,y).