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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2005
Applicant:
Patrick Le Roux, Palaiseau, FR;
Inventor:
Patrick Le Roux, Palaiseau, FR;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An NMR image of a patient's heart uses SSFSE (single shot fast spin echo) type pulses to condition the body by a preparation of a phase-encoding gradient pulse whose duration differs from one sequence to another so as to define, from one sequence to another, a different effective echo time. At each sequence an image is displayed representing the discrimination of the contributions of the particles of the body as a function of their time Tcompared with this effective time. For the heart, with a single respiration on the part of the patient, lesions due to infarction and transplant rejection are revealed.