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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2024
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Waukesha, WI (US);
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, Maintaining the Ho, New York, NY (US);
Yan Wen, New York, NY (US);
Mei Kei Maggie Fung, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Kang Wang, Sussex, WI (US);
Ek Tsoon Tan, Westbury, NY (US);
Darryl Brett Sneag, Plainview, NY (US);
GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED, MAINTAINING THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for suppressing fat in reconstructed magnetic resonance imaging data includes generating, via a processor, a first echo image and a second echo image from magnetic resonance scan data acquired of a subject with a magnetic resonance scanner utilizing a multi-echo steady state sequence. The computer-implemented method also includes estimating, via the processor, an echo phase difference between the first echo image and the second echo image to generate an echo phase difference image. The computer-implemented method further includes identifying, via the processor, voxels in the echo phase difference image having an extra chemical shift phase. The computer-implemented method even further includes removing, via the processor, signals of the voxels identified having the extra chemical shift phase in both the first echo image and the second echo image to generate a first fat-removed image and a second fat-removed image, respectively.