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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2020
Applicant:
The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., Milwaukee, WI (US);
Inventor:
Nikolai Jonas Mickevicius, Mukwonago, WI (US);
Assignee:
The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., Milwaukee, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/483 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/483 (2013.01); G01R 33/5615 (2013.01);
Abstract
Simultaneous multi-orientation ('SMO') magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”), in which arbitrarily-oriented slices are simultaneously imaged, is described. The SMO techniques can include any number of pulse sequences that are adapted to acquire data from two or more arbitrarily oriented slices. In general, an SMO acquisition includes sequentially exciting two or more arbitrarily rotated slices that share a common spatial encoding axis (e.g., a common frequency encoding direction) and simultaneously acquiring data from the excited slices.