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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Weiguo Zhang, Foster City, CA (US);
David M. Kramer, Corte Madera, CA (US);
Assignee:
Toshiba America MRI, Inc., Tustin, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
Abstract
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method is disclosed for generating and identifying water and fat separated MR images. Image data is first acquired to obtain two echo images with the water and fat signals orthogonal in the first echo image, and parallel/anti-parallel in the second echo image. The effect of background field inhomogeneties are removed, and water and fat images are separated from each other. The separated water and fat images are identified according to the difference of their precessing frequencies.