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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2004
Applicant:
Albert Macovski, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Albert Macovski, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In an MRI imaging system each portion of k-space is sequentially scanned, transformed and separately demodulated. Instead of adding the k-space regions, as is the practice in the prior art, the demodulated portions are added, each representing spectral portions of the image. Each k-space portion is scanned with closely spaced lines which substantially satisfy the sampling requirement to avoid aliasing. In this way, distortion resulting from phase changes between k-space scans is avoided.