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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Valentina Taviani, Madison, WI (US);
Diego Hernando, Madison, WI (US);
Scott Brian Reeder, Madison, WI (US);
Wisconsin Alumni Resesarch Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
Described here is a system and method for estimating apparent transverse relaxation rate, R*, while simultaneously performing chemical species separation (e.g., water-fat separation) using magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI'). A homodyne reconstruction of k-space datasets acquired using a partial k-space acquisition is used and the chemical species separation of the resultant images takes into account the spectral complexity of the chemical species in addition to magnetic resonance signal decay associated with transverse relaxation. Full resolution maps of R* are thus capable of being produced while also allowing for the production of images depicting the separated chemical species that are corrected for transverse relaxation associated signal decays.