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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2004
Vinay Manjunath Pai, New York, NY (US);
Leon Axel, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Vinay Manjunath Pai, New York, NY (US);
Leon Axel, Philadelphia, PA (US);
New York University, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and software arrangement for automatically prescribing long-axis magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI') slices of a target are provided. An MRI image is captured along a short-axis slice of the target. Vectorial components, including slice selection, phase-encoding, and frequency encoding vectors, are extracted from the short-axis slice. Vectorial components are established for a long-axis slice using the vectorial components of the short-axis slice, by transposing the slice-selection and frequency-encoding vectors. A plurality of long-axis slice planes are defined in a manner positioned relative to the long axis slice, rotating about a long axis in a direction of a long-axis frequency encoding vector. In one exemplary embodiment, frequency and phase shifts are established for each of the long-axis slices, for use in RF transmitting and receiving.