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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2009
Yi Wang, New York, NY (US);
Ludovic DE Rochefort, Montrouge, FR;
Bryan Kressler, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Tian Liu, New York, NY (US);
Pascal Spincemaille, New York, NY (US);
Yi Wang, New York, NY (US);
Ludovic de Rochefort, Montrouge, FR;
Bryan Kressler, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Tian Liu, New York, NY (US);
Pascal Spincemaille, New York, NY (US);
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for magnetic source magnetic resonance imaging. The method includes collecting energy signals from an object, providing additional information of characteristics of the object, and generating the image of the object from the energy signals and from the additional information such that the image includes a representation of a quantitative estimation of the characteristics, e.g a quantitative estimation of magnetic susceptibility. The additional information may comprise predetermined characteristics of the object, a magnitude image generated from the object, or magnetic signals collected from different relative orientations between the object and the imaging system. The image is generated by an inversion operation based on the collected signals and the additional information. The inversion operation minimizes a cost function obtained by combining the data extracted from the collected signals and the additional information of the object. Additionally, the image is used to detect a number of diagnostic features including microbleeds, contract agents and the like.