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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2022
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Stephen Cauley, Winchester, MA (US);
Kawin Setsompop, Charlestown, MA (US);
Lawrence Wald, Cambridge, MA (US);
Berkin Bilgic, Winchester, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Images are reconstructed from k-space acquired with a magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI') system using a multi-shot pulse sequence. In each iteration, a phase-aware image reconstruction, a data-consistency update across all shots or subsets of data, and a relative phase estimation across the reconstructed images for each shot are performed. In this way, the reconstruction framework recasts the problem as an iterative relative phase estimation problem, which allows for the use relative phase estimation techniques. Through an iterative search, an artifact-free combined image and the smooth relative phase between each shot in the multi-shot k-space data can be jointly estimated.