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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:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus uses an array of at least two receive coils to perform parallel processing to enable phase-encode gradients to be omitted during data collection, and restored during processing using parallel processing to further reduce patient time in the apparatus, pre-acquired reference data is used (modules ) to unfold the aliased target data in modules In accordance with the invention, the unfolding is performed against a series of representations of the reference data, varied for translational rotational and coil loading errors, and the unfolded image is chosen as that having the minimum entropy.