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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:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
Two images are acquired using a three-dimensional projection reconstruction, SSFP pulse sequence. Different RF phase cycling patterns are used to acquire each image and a fat suppressed water image is produced by combining the two images. Data acquisition efficiency is increased by aquiring k-space data during substantially the entire readout gradient waveform produced during the SSFP pulse sequence.