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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2011
Nan-kuei Chen, Cary, NC (US);
Alexandru V. Avram, Bethesda, MD (US);
Allen W. Song, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Trong-kha Truong, Durham, NC (US);
Nan-Kuei Chen, Cary, NC (US);
Alexandru V. Avram, Bethesda, MD (US);
Allen W. Song, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Trong-Kha Truong, Durham, NC (US);
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, computer programs, circuits and workstations are configured to carry out image processing to generate MRI images with reduced aliasing artifacts (e.g., Nyquist and/or motion-induced image artifacts) by (a) electronically reconstructing a series of images using patient image data obtained from a patient MRI image data set by iteratively cycling through different estimated values of phase gradients in at least two dimensions; and (b) electronically selecting an image from the reconstructed images as having a lowest artifact level.