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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Weiguo Zhang, Foster City, CA (US);
David M Kramer, Tiburon, CA (US);
David M Goldhaber, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ching Yao, San Carlos, CA (US);
Hsu Chang, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Toshiba America MRI, Inc., Tustin, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324309 ; 324307 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for obtaining three MRI image data in a single data acquisition TR interval for use in constructing separate water and fat images by appropriate processing of the three images data is disclosed. The three image data are obtained in one exemplary embodiment by sandwiching a spin echo between two field echoes. The invention can also be used for multiple-echo and multiple-slice 3D scans.