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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2005
Joseph K. Maier, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Ajeetkumar Gaddipati, Waukesha, WI (US);
Michael J. Radziun, Waterford, WI (US);
Robert Donald Peters, Sussex, WI (US);
Joseph K. Maier, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Ajeetkumar Gaddipati, Waukesha, WI (US);
Michael J. Radziun, Waterford, WI (US);
Robert Donald Peters, Sussex, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing vibration-related artifacts in diffusion weighted imaging determines a vibrational frequency of an MR system and modifies scan parameters such that vibrational frequencies induced on the MR system are inconsistent with the vibrational frequency of the MR system. The method and apparatus improves image quality of MR images acquired using diffusion weighted imaging techniques with the MR system. As such, modification and/or redesign of the MR system to reduce vibrational frequency interaction is reduced.