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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2006
Mitsuharu Miyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuharu Miyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
Versatility and the quality of images are to be improved. As preparation pulses, a first RF pulse to flip along the yz plane spins oriented in a magnetostatic field direction in a subject; a velocity encoding gradient pulse which, in spins flipped by that first RF pulse, mutually shifts the phase of spins in a static state and the phase of spins in a moving state; and a second RF pulse to flip along the yz plane spins whose phase has been shifted by the velocity encoding gradient pulse are successively transmitted. After that, a killer pulse is transmitted to extinguish the transverse magnetizations of the spins flipped by the second RF pulse.