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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2024
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Waukesha, WI (US);
Tim Sprenger, Bavaria, DE;
Suchandrima Banerjee, Menlo Park, CA (US);
GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for a slice-ahead inversion sequence for jointly acquiring non-inverted and inverted contrast. In one example, a method for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes acquiring k-space data with the MRI system according to a slice-ahead inversion sequence that jointly generates a contrast without inversion preparation and one or more inversion contrasts for a plurality of slices in a scan volume of a subject, wherein the k-space data comprises first k-space data of the contrast without inversion preparation acquired during one or more non-inversion repetitions and second k-space data of the one or more inversion contrasts acquired during one or more inversion repetitions, wherein a repetition time for each of the one or more non-inversion repetitions and one or more inversion repetitions is constant, and reconstructing one or more images from the k-space data.