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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2012
Dominic Michael Graziani, Loudonville, NY (US);
Christopher Judson Hardy, Schenectday, NY (US);
Ek Tsoon Tan, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Stephen Joseph Garnier, Waukesha, WI (US);
Dominic Michael Graziani, Loudonville, NY (US);
Christopher Judson Hardy, Schenectday, NY (US);
Ek Tsoon Tan, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Stephen Joseph Garnier, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes obtaining a plurality of magnetic resonance (MR) coil images of a subject of interest, each MR coil image being generated from one of an array of MR receiving coils; combining the plurality of coil images to generate an image estimate of the subject of interest; performing a multichannel blind deconvolution (MBD) process including: deriving coil sensitivity information for every one of the array of MR receiving coils based on the image estimate or a filtered image estimate derived from the image estimate; updating the image estimate or the filtered image estimate using the derived coil sensitivity information to generate an updated image estimate; and applying a homomorphic filter to the image estimate to derive the filtered image estimate, or to the updated image estimate to derive a filtered updated image estimate, or a combination thereof.