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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1988
Akira Maeda, Machida, JP;
Koichi Sano, Sagamihara, JP;
Tetsuo Yokoyama, Tokyo, JP;
Hideaki Koizumi, Katsuta, JP;
Hirotaka Mizuno, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an nuclear magnetic resonance imaging system for acquiring a tomographic image of an object of interest at a high speed by use of time-varying gradient magnetic fields, a weighting factor is used in reconstructing an image through the calculation of a correlation of data of a detected nuclear magnetic resonance signal with data of a reference signal, thereby controlling the point spread function and/or the signal-to-noise ratio in each point on the reconstruction image. Also, the effect of relaxation, chemical shift and/or static magnetic field inhomegeneity, which would otherwise degradate the image quality, can be corrected. Further, a velocity of the object of interest at each point on the reconstruction image can be measured.