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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2011
DE He Weng, Shenzhen, CN;
De He Weng, Shenzhen, CN;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In a method and an apparatus for making a distinction in a magnetic resonance imaging water-fat image, three echoes are acquired without phase encoding as a reference scan, a reference water-fat image projection is calculated in the phase encoding direction using the reference scan, a complete water-fat image projection is calculated in the phase encoding direction according to a water image and a fat image obtained by a three-point Dixon method, a correlation between the reference water-fat image projection and the complete water-fat image projection is calculated to obtain at least two correlated values, and the maximum correlated value is acquired therefrom, so as to determine the type of said image calculated by using the three-point Dixon method.