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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2006
Anja C. S. Brau, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Philip James Beatty, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stefan Skare, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Roland Bammer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anja C. S. Brau, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Philip James Beatty, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Stefan Skare, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Roland Bammer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for parallel imaging that performs auto-calibrating reconstructions with a 2D (for 2D imaging) or 3D kernel (for 3D imaging) that exploits the computational efficiencies available when operating in certain data 'domains' or 'spaces'. The reconstruction process of multi-coil data is separated into a “training phase” and an “application phase” in which reconstruction weights are applied to acquired data to synthesize (replace) missing data. The choice of data space, i.e., k-space, hybrid space, or image space, in which each step occurs is independently optimized to reduce total reconstruction time for a given imaging application. As such, the invention retains the image quality benefits of using a 2D k-space kernel without the computational burden of applying a 2D k-space convolution kernel.