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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2008
Brian A. Hargreaves, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Wenmiao LU, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John M. Pauly, Stanford, CA (US);
Garry E. Gold, Stanford, CA (US);
Kim B. Pauly, Stanford, CA (US);
Brian A. Hargreaves, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Wenmiao Lu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John M. Pauly, Stanford, CA (US);
Garry E. Gold, 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 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with slice-direction distortion correction is provided. One or more selective cross-sections with a thickness along a first axis is excited using a RF pulse with a bandwidth, wherein a selective cross-section is either a selective slice or selective slab. A refocusing pulse is applied to form a spin echo. One or more 2D encoded image signals are acquired with readout along a second axis and phase encoding along a third axis. Slice-direction distortion is corrected by resolving the position by resolving the frequency offset.