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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2009
Applicant:
Jiang Du, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jiang Du, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Techniques and systems for magnetic resonance imaging are disclosed in this specification. In one aspect, imaging of tissues having short transverse relaxation times Tis described including short echo time (TE) signal acquisition preceded by suppression of signal from the surrounding tissues having long transverse relaxation times T, to increase the contrast and dynamic range of magnetic resonance (MR) images contributed by the tissues having short T