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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
May. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles A. Mistretta, Madison, WI (US);
Andrew V. Barger, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
Abstract
A magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) is acquired using a pulse sequence that samples k-space at a projection angle. The acquired NMR signal is sensitized to spin motion with a bipolar motion encoding gradient and the pulse sequence is repeated to sample k-space at a set of different projection angles. A phase image is reconstructed from the acquired NMR signals using a filtered backprojection technique. Additional sets of projections with different motion encoding directions are acquired at interleaved projection angles, and the reconstructed phase images are combined to provide a velocity image.