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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas William Redpath, Aberdeen, GB;
Fergus Iain McKiddie, Laurencekirk, GB;
Rosemary Carmen Dymond, Cardiff, GB;
Assignee:
BTG International Limited, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01U / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324307 ; 324309 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method of obtaining phase information in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and employing this information to produce an enhanced image. In the past, magnetic resonance imagers have obtained data which contains phase as well as magnitude information. Often the phase information has been discarded in order to avoid image artifacts, which are usually attributable to motion. The present invention employs a technique in which this phase information is used in order to improve image quality, in an analogous method to that used in optical microscopy.