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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2023
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Healthineers AG, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for obtaining T1-weighted and susceptibility-weighted imaging images may include in a 3D EPI process with a plurality of times of excitation, for each time of excitation, first performing radio frequency pulse excitation on target tissue, and simultaneously applying a slice selection gradient pulse to the target tissue in a slice selection encoding direction. When a preset T1W data acquisition time arrives, T1W data for an excited echo may be acquired. After the T1W data acquisition is completed, SWI data for the excited echo may be acquired. Image reconstruction may then be performed on T1W data acquired in all excitation processes to obtain a T1W image of the target tissue, and image reconstruction on SWI data acquired in all the excitation processes may be performed to obtain an SWI image of the target tissue. Both T1W data and SWI data can be obtained in one excitation process.