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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2023
Siemens Healthineers Ag, Forchheim, DE;
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Wolfgang Rehwald, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Raymond J. Kim, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim, DE;
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A system and method comprises acquisition of a plurality of navigator k-space data segments and a k-space data segment associated with each of the plurality of navigator k-space data segments, generation of a respective navigator image from each of the plurality of navigator k-space data segments, determination, based on the respective navigator images of each of the plurality of navigator k-space data segments, of a first center navigator k-space data segment associated with a most common respiratory position of a subject, determination of a center k-space data segment corresponding to the first center navigator k-space data segment, determination, for each non-center segment of k-space, of a k-space data segment whose respective navigator image is most similar to a first center navigator image generated from the first center navigator k-space data segment, and generation of an image based on the determined k-space data segments.