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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2002
Mark Bydder, London, GB;
Joseph V. Hajnal, London, GB;
David J. Larkman, London, GB;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
In magnetic resonance imaging apparatus k-space data received from r.f. excitation pulses applied at successive phase-encode gradients and read-out while other gradients are applied is collected for individual coils of an array of r.f. receive coils. A processoruses the lines of data received by each r.f. receive coil at each phase-encode gradient together with reference spatial sensitivity profiles of each coil in a phase-encode direction represented in terms of spatial harmonics of a fundamental frequency one cycle of which corresponds with a desired field of view, to generate a set of phase-encode lines. These lines are converted to image space in Fourier Transform processorto produce an image for display on monitor