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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Viewray Incorporated, Oakwood Village, OH (US);
Inventors:
James F. Dempsey, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
Roger Nana, Oakwood, OH (US);
Tony Apicella, Oakwood, OH (US);
Assignee:
ViewRay Incorporated, Oakwood Village, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G01R 33/483 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G01R 33/565 (2013.01); G01R 33/4833 (2013.01); G01R 33/4835 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for correcting saturation banding artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging in which artifact and reference calibration scans are used to create one dimensional or two dimensional correction profiles, which are subsequently applied to actual diagnostic imaging scans to correct the saturation banding artifacts.