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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas K Foo, Waukesha, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324309 ;
Abstract
An NMR system performs a 3DFT scan using a set of steady-state free precession (SSFP) pulse sequences. A contrast preparation pulse sequence precedes each series of SSFP pulse sequences employed to acquire one plane through the three-dimensional space, and it includes a spectrally selective RF inversion pulse tuned to fat or water. The sequence is repeated without any magnetization recovery delays until all the planes have been acquired.