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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2011
Ananth J. Madhuranthakam, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Huanzhou Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David C. Alsop, Newton, MA (US);
Ananth J. Madhuranthakam, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Huanzhou Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David C. Alsop, Newton, MA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for separating the NMR signal contributions from a plurality of different species having different chemical shifts is disclosed. The apparatus acquires MR image data sets including a first species signal and a second species signal, generates a first species image from the acquired MR image data, and generates a second species image from the acquired MR image data. The apparatus also identifies voxels in the second species image representative of only the second species and, for voxels identified as being representative of only the second species, calculates a fraction of the second species signal appearing in the first species image. The apparatus generates a modified first species image based on the fraction of the second species signal appearing in the first species image, with the modified first species image having a different fraction of the second species as compared to the first species image.