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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
May. 03, 2023
Siemens Healthineers Ag, Forchheim, DE;
Seung Su Yoon, Erlangen, DE;
Jens Wetzl, Erlangen, DE;
Fasil Gadjimuradov, Erlangen, DE;
Michaela Schmidt, Uttenreuth, DE;
SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG, Forchheim, DE;
Abstract
A frequency offset is selected based on similarity measures of multiple MRI images obtained from frequency scout measurements associated with multiple frequency offsets from a reference frequency of a magnetization excitation pulse. The similarity measure for each respective MRI image of the multiple MRI images is determined based on a comparison between at least one reference image and the respective MRI image. The at least one reference image is determined from the multiple MRI images based on spectrum information of each of the multiple MRI images. Such methods facilitate automatically determining/selecting a more optimal frequency offset for an MRI scan following a frequency scout scan, in particular, for an SSFP or a bSSFP pulse sequence, and thereby banding artifacts and/or flow-related artifacts can be reduced for the MRI scan.