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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2022
Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Tochigi, JP;
Samir Dev Sharma, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Tochigi, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus correcting a metal artifact in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. The method and apparatus acquire plural slices along a slice direction of a scanned region associated with a body part, estimate a spatial extent of a signal dispersion of the acquired plural slices along the slice direction, and combine the signal of the acquired plural slices along the slice direction based on the estimated spatial extent of the signal dispersion to generate a reconstructed image of the scanned region. The method and apparatus may identify, from the acquired plural slices along the slice direction, a slice with a highest pixel intensity; and identify at least one neighboring slice neighboring the slice with the highest pixel intensity based on a 3D spatial dipole response function, wherein combining the signal of the acquired plural slices along the slice direction based on the estimated spatial extent of the signal dispersion comprises combining (a) the signal of the slice with the highest pixel intensity and (b) the signal of the at least one neighboring slice.