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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2007
Eun-kee Jeong, North Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Dennis L. Parker, Centerville, UT (US);
Kim Seong-eun Choi, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Evgueni G. Kholmovski, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Eun-Kee Jeong, North Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Dennis L. Parker, Centerville, UT (US);
Kim Seong-Eun Choi, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Evgueni G. Kholmovski, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for operating an MRI system is provided. The disclosure provides a diffusion-prepared driven-equilibrium preparation for an imaging volume and acquiring 3-dimensional k-space data from said prepared volume by a plurality of echoplanar readouts of stimulated echoes. An excitation radio-frequency signal and first and second inversion RF signals are provided to define a field-of-view (FOV).