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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2003
Applicant:
Inventor:
Aki Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
For the purpose of obtaining an image without band artifacts, in a pulse sequence for conducting data collection in an SSFP state, the phase of an RF pulse &agr; is adjusted to correct the zeroth-order phase offsets of an FID signal and SE/STE signals and a correction pulse for correcting the first-order phase offsets of the FID signal and the SE/STE signals are incorporated into a read axis pulse.