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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2002
Applicants:
Frederik Visser, Eindhoven, NL;
Paulus Cornelius Hendrikus Adrianus Haans, Eindhoven, NL;
Johan Samuel Van Den Brink, Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Frederik Visser, Eindhoven, NL;
Paulus Cornelius Hendrikus Adrianus Haans, Eindhoven, NL;
Johan Samuel Van Den Brink, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V003/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The proposed MRI apparatus provides a solution to the problem of a limited number of receiver channels. The main idea is to make use of the imaging parameters when selecting and/or combining the RF signals of at least two RF coils into separate receiver channels. Such an imaging parameter may be, for example, the phase encoding direction.