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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2004
Applicants:
Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Lucknow, IN;
Anasuya Mohan Rao, Bangalore, IN;
Ramesh Venkatesan, Bangalore, IN;
Inventors:
Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Lucknow, IN;
Anasuya Mohan Rao, Bangalore, IN;
Ramesh Venkatesan, Bangalore, IN;
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 method of differentiating tissues in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) comprising applying a Magnetization Transfer (MT) pre-pulse in combination with the Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) pulse sequence to obtain an image of the tissue under evaluation. Analysis maps and/or measurements are generated from the obtained image, from which values representative of the macromolecular content are computed for obtaining tissue differentiation.