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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2006
Ajeetkumar Gaddipati, Waukesha, WI (US);
Shaorong Chang, Waukesha, WI (US);
Ersin Bayram, Delafield, WI (US);
Michael R. Hartley, Novi, MI (US);
Ajeetkumar Gaddipati, Waukesha, WI (US);
Shaorong Chang, Waukesha, WI (US);
Ersin Bayram, Delafield, WI (US);
Michael R. Hartley, Novi, MI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method of MR imaging enables PROPELLER imaging to be feasibly carried out independently of slice orientation or anatomy of interest. The invention is directed to accelerated acquisition of blades of MR data that are rotated about a central region of k-space and reconstructing an image of arbitrary slice orientation from the blades of MR data that preserves contrast and reduces acceleration artifacts caused by signal amplitude variances.