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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2004
Scott King, Winnipeg, CA;
Lizann Bolinger, Winnipeg, CA;
Scott King, Winnipeg, CA;
Lizann Bolinger, Winnipeg, CA;
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, CA;
Abstract
In a method of spatial encoding in magnetic resonance experiments, encoding kernels are imposed into the magnetization signal during the excitation or re-focussing process using a transmit array coil. Separate transmit array coil elements are provided so that in a particular phase encode direction, z in this case, they can be driven to produce partially orthogonal B1 fields, T(r), that exhibit a Fourier phase distribution given by()=.The NMR signal, S(k), received by a coil array element m of the M receive coils, during application of a pulse sequence for the n-th phase encoding step in k-space is then given by()=∫()()such thatρ'()=ρ()()=ρ()