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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
May. 24, 2010
Applicants:
Wayne R. Dannels, Mentor, OH (US);
Andrew J. Wheaton, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Inventors:
Wayne R. Dannels, Mentor, OH (US);
Andrew J. Wheaton, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Assignees:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, Tochigi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Frequency filtering of spatially modulated or 'tagged' MRI data in the spatial frequency k-space domain with subsequent 2DFT to the spatial domain and pixel-by-pixel arithmetic calculations provide robust data that can be used to derive B1 and/or B0 maps for an MRI system.