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Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 04, 2009
Applicants:

David S. Lake, Rochester, MN (US);

Armando Manduca, Rochester, MN (US);

Jeffrey S. Mcallister, St. Paul, MN (US);

Nelson Ramirez, Rochester, MN (US);

Inventors:

David S. Lake, Rochester, MN (US);

Armando Manduca, Rochester, MN (US);

Jeffrey S. McAllister, St. Paul, MN (US);

Nelson Ramirez, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/565 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for compensating for motion of a subject during an MRI scan of the subject. k-space data may be received from the MRI scan of the subject. Motion information may be received for the subject. Based on the received motion information, a translational motion of the subject may be determined between a first point in time and a second point in time. A search space for motion correction may be reduced using the determined change and an error margin of the capturing technique. A motion-compensated, graphical image of the subject may be generated using the reduced search space.


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