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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2004
Applicants:
Ajit Shankaranarayanan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andres Carrillo, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Steven D. Wolff, New Nork, NY (US);
Jean H. Brittain, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ajit Shankaranarayanan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andres Carrillo, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Steven D. Wolff, New Nork, NY (US);
Jean H. Brittain, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for MR imaging is disclosed that includes displaying a series of MR images of an ROI in real-time and localizing a slice within the ROI. The method also includes using a parallel imaging technique to acquire gated MR data from the localized slice and reconstructing a prescribed fixed number of gated MR images of the localized slice.