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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:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dee H. Wu, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Michael R. Thompson, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Assignee:
Marconi Medical Systems, Inc., Highland Heights, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
An MRI scanning method and apparatus provide increased efficiency by oversampling in the phase encoding direction. The oversampling is performed during one or more time periods (,) during the scanning sequence that would normally be unused. The addition phase encoding steps (,) can be used to enhance overall image resolution. In preferred embodiments, additional phase encoding steps reduce or eliminate N/2 ghost artifacts with no increase in imaging time. Image throughput is improved by obviating the need for ghost removal post-processing of the image data.