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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2004
Anthony T. VU, Waukesha, WI (US);
Anthony T. Vu, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method of MR scan prescription to achieve in a fast, simple, and effective manner the optimal peak excitation field strength for a given pulse shape and flip angle such that the minimum TR for the MR scan can be optimized and based on SAR constraints. The present invention provides a technique to obtain optimal Bparameters for an arbitrary shape and flip angle of an excitation pulse in real-time while satisfying SAR and/or RF hardware limits to determine the minimum achievable repetition time for a pulse sequence. The present invention is particularly applicable with breath-hold and cardiac imaging techniques that are carried out at relatively high field strengths.