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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2012
Brian A. Hargreaves, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Brian A. Hargreaves, Menlo Park, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of ordering slices for interleaved MRI is provided that includes selecting a number of interleaved slice locations (N) each having a plurality of excitations (N), where S is the slice number between 1 and Nand Nmay differ for different slice numbers, selecting an excitation duration (T) of each the excitation in each the slice, selecting a repetition time (TR) between successive excitations of the same slice, TR has a duration of N×T, Nis the number of interleaved slices per TR period, and arranging the order for the slices such that the total scan time (T) is minimized such that TR is the product of Nand T, where Ncan be arbitrarily chosen between 1 and N/Nwhere Nis the total number of excitations for all the slices and where Nis the maximum number of the excitations for one slice.