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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2012
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Ryota Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Shirai, Tokyo, JP;
Yo Taniguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihisa Soutome, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitaka Bito, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a technique for obtaining a magnetic susceptibility-weighted image in which contrast difference of a tissue of interest and a surrounding tissue can be emphasized regardless of the positional relationship of the Bdirection and the imaging slice. A phase image is converted into a susceptibility map not depending on the Bdirection, and then a weighting image used for weighting is generated by using the susceptibility map. The weighting image to be generated is for emphasizing contrast of a tissue of interest and a surrounding tissue depending on the purpose. Then, by multiplication of the weighting image and an absolute image, a magnetic susceptibility-weighted image in which the magnetic susceptibility difference is emphasized depending on the purpose is obtained.