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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2006
Nael F. Osman, Baltimore, MD (US);
Michael A. Jacobs, Sparks, MD (US);
Axel Krieger, San Antonio, TX (US);
Ahmed Samir Fahmy, Baltimore, MD (US);
Nael F. Osman, Baltimore, MD (US);
Michael A. Jacobs, Sparks, MD (US);
Axel Krieger, San Antonio, TX (US);
Ahmed Samir Fahmy, Baltimore, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
Featured are a device for compression of target tissue while magnetic resonance imaging the target tissue and methods and systems related thereto. The method includes disposing target tissue between the fixed surface and the moveable member of a compression device and compressing the target tissue between the fixed surface and the moveable member. The method also includes acquiring one or more, more specifically a plurality, of sequences of image data of the compressed target tissue using an MRI imaging technique (MRI). In embodiments, the MRI technique is a SENC MRI technique, where tissue encoding is done prior to compressing the tissue and acquiring includes adding a gradient moment in the slice-selection direction to cause demodulation with a specific frequency, hi further embodiments, the sequences of image data are acquired during a single compression and prior to recovery of magnetization.