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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2005
Richard Scott Hinks, Waukesha, WI (US);
Kevin F. King, New Berlin, WI (US);
Jason A. Polzin, Lake Mills, WI (US);
Richard Scott Hinks, Waukesha, WI (US);
Kevin F. King, New Berlin, WI (US);
Jason A. Polzin, Lake Mills, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a technique for use with magnetic resonance imaging that includes the application of a non-linear, higher-order gradient field in the presence of a moving object to be scanned. MR data is acquired as the object moves through the non-linear gradient field. Resulting images are contiguous and do not require the patching together of data in either k-space or image space and result in an image with expanded FOV in a longitudinal direction of the moving object.