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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. 19, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
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
Three MRI acquisitions are performed to acquire data from which separate water and fat images may be reconstructed using a three-point Dixon technique. The NMR data is acquired with a phased array coil having four separate coil elements. Low resolution images are reconstructed from the acquired NMR data sets and used to calculate phase corrections which are used to correct reconstructed high resolution images. The corrected high resolution images are processed using the Dixon technique to produce fat and water images for each coil element which are combined into a single fat and a single water image.