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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2008
Applicants:
Maxim Zaitsev, Freiburg, DE;
Daniel N. Splitthoff, Freiburg, DE;
Jürgen Hennig, Freiburg, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The pursuit for ever higher field strengths and faster data acquisitions has led to the construction of coil arrays with high numbers of elements. With the SENSE technique it has been shown, how the sensitivity of those elements can be used for spatial image encoding. A method in accordance with the present invention, largely abstains from using encoding gradients. The resulting sensitivity encoded free induction decay (FID) data is then not used for imaging, but for determining field inhomogeneity distribution. The method has therefore been termed SSH for Sense SHimming.