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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2004
Applicants:
Hector C. Avram, Foster City, CA (US);
Ilya S. Simovsky, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Hector C. Avram, Foster City, CA (US);
Ilya S. Simovsky, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Toshiba America MRI, Inc., Tustin, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method to separate two chemically-shifted components of water (w) and fat (f) signals by: (i) estimating the field inhomogeneity β through a treatment of the residuals of the Moore-Penrose solution of the following equations: cos(αβ)*w+cos [α(1+β)]*f=real (I) and sin(αβ)*w+sin [α(1+β)]*f=imaginary (I), and (ii) using the estimated β to determine the resulting solution for w and f from the original input signals I.