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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2009
Wolfgang Gerhard Rehwald, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Enn-ling Chen, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Raymond J. Kim, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Wolfgang Gerhard Rehwald, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Enn-Ling Chen, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Raymond J. Kim, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A method of suppressing artifacts arising from tissue, fluids, or other long-T1 species when acquiring magnetic resonance data with a segmented pulse sequence that assumes that magnetization is at steady state, said method including suppressing artifacts by producing an artifact suppression module (ASM) before the segmented sequence, the artifact suppression module comprising at least one selective, non-selective, or volume-selective suppression pulse and a time delay.