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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2009
Timothy Hughes, Erlangen, DE;
Vladimir Jellus, Erlangen, DE;
Timothy Hughes, Erlangen, DE;
Vladimir Jellus, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In a magnetic resonance tomography method and apparatus for separation of fat and water images according to the two-point Dixon method dependent on the T*decay, the following steps are implemented: (S) acquire three fat-water images, respectively corresponding to the echo times TE, TE, TEafter the RF excitation pulse, wherein first and third fat-water images exhibit the same phase, (S) calculate a T*map from the two equiphase images, (S) correct the T*influence in one of the two equiphase fat-water images and in the counter-phase fat-water image, and (S) reconstruct a pure T*-corrected fat image and a pure T*-corrected water image according to the two-point Dixon method on the basis of the T*-corrected equiphase and counter-phase fat-water images in Step (S).