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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph Vilmos Hajnal, London, GB;
Assignee:
Picker International, Inc., Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
Abstract
In a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus in which excitation pulses are applied to a restricted region of a magnetic resonance imaging magnet bore, in which the field is uniform, and the data samples collected are Fourier transformed to form a volumetric image of the restricted region, a motor continuously moves a patient couch so that a region of interest passes through the region of good field, and the data samples collected are corrected to compensate for the motion so that a volumetric image is formed of greater length than that of the restricted region.