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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventor:
Sang-cheon Choi, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/561 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/385 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/5611 (2013.01); G01R 33/3852 (2013.01); G01R 33/4818 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20182 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus and method. The MRI apparatus includes a data acquirer, which performs under-sampling of MR signals, respectively received from a plurality of channel coils included in a radio frequency (RF) multi-coil, at non-uniform intervals to acquire a plurality of pieces of line data, and an image processor that restores a plurality of pieces of K-space data respectively corresponding to the plurality of channel coils by using a relationship between the acquired plurality of pieces of line data, thereby restoring an MR image with reduced aliasing artifacts.