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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011

Filed:

Apr. 09, 2009
Applicants:

Luca Marinelli, Schenectady, NY (US);

Christopher Judson Hardy, Schenectady, NY (US);

Daniel James Blezek, Rochester, MN (US);

Inventors:

Luca Marinelli, Schenectady, NY (US);

Christopher Judson Hardy, Schenectady, NY (US);

Daniel James Blezek, Rochester, MN (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for reconstructing an image in a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The method includes steps of acquiring magnetic resonance signals from a plurality of receiver coils placed about a subject, each receiver coil having a coil sensitivity, iteratively polling each acquired magnetic resonance signal for determining one or more significant wavelet components of each acquired magnetic resonance signal by utilizing a coil sensitivity function of each receiver coil for each acquired magnetic resonance signal, iteratively determining one or more coefficients based on the one or more significant wavelet components to generate a plurality of coefficients for each acquired magnetic resonance signal, reconstructing an image utilizing a corresponding plurality of coefficients corresponding to each acquired magnetic resonance signal, and generating a composite image by combining the reconstructed images.


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