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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
May. 24, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yiping Du, Towson, MD (US);
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
An MRI system acquired NMR data from which a three-dimensional image of a patient's heart is reconstructed. The NMR data is acquired as a plurality of three-dimensional slabs that are concatenated to reconstruct the image. A plurality of respiratory gating windows are established and NMR data for each slab is acquired during a different one of the respiratory gating windows.