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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2008
Sonal Josan, Mountain View, CA (US);
John M. Pauly, Stanford, CA (US);
Kim B. Pauly, Stanford, CA (US);
Sonal Josan, Mountain View, CA (US);
John M. Pauly, Stanford, CA (US);
Kim B. Pauly, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for creating a magnetic resonance image of an object with at least a first species and a second species, wherein the first species has a first Ttime and the second species has a second Ttime longer than the first Ttime is provided. An excitation with an ultra short echo time using a pulse is provided, comprising a first subpulse that creates a transverse magnetization component for the first species and the second species and a second subpulse that creates a transverse magnetization for the first species and substantially returns the second species to a longitudinal axis, wherein the transverse magnetization component substantially decays for the first species during an interval between the first subpulse and the second subpulse. At least one echo is read. A magnetic resonance image is created from the at least one echo.