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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2008
Maggie M. Fung, Rockville, MD (US);
Ehud J. Schmidt, Newton, MA (US);
Godtfred Holmvang, Boston, MA (US);
Vincent B. Ho, N. Bethesda, MD (US);
Maggie M. Fung, Rockville, MD (US);
Ehud J. Schmidt, Newton, MA (US);
Godtfred Holmvang, Boston, MA (US);
Vincent B. Ho, N. Bethesda, MD (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Rockville, MD (US);
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for MR imaging includes a computer programmed to determine first and second view-ordering sequences. The first and second view-ordering sequences comprise values corresponding to respective views of first and second k-space data sets, respectively, wherein the values corresponding to a central view of each the first and second k-space data sets are positioned such that acquisition of k-space data in each central view is acquired from a first and second anatomical region, respectively, as a contrast agent passes therethrough. The positions of the values corresponding to the central views of the first and second k-space data sets within the respective sequences are different. The computer is further programmed to acquire MR data according to the first and second view-ordering sequences over a series of cardiac cycles to fill data in the first and second k-space data sets, respectively.