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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1994
Lorinda R Opsahl, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Charles L Dumoulin, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An elasticity imaging method uses magnetic resonance to detect the distribution of eternally induced velocities within a subject. Distributions am measured responsive to at least two different field-of-views. Differences of the velocity distribution obtained with one field-of-view and the second field-of-view are computed to give a component of stress. The method can be used to obtain velocity measurements in any of three mutually orthogonal directions responsive to field-of-view shifts in as many as three mutually orthogonal directions to give a total of nine stress components. Data for each component can be acquired independently or data acquisition can be multiplexed to reduce data acquisition requirements.