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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Steven Ryan Kecskemeti, Madison, WI (US);
Andrew L. Alexander, Madison, WI (US);
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
Described here are a system and method for obtaining a time series of images that depict a subject using an inversion recovery ('IR') pulse sequence with a unique data acquisition scheme that allows for the retrospective identification of an image having an optimal tissue contrast. Data acquisition is performed using a radial acquisition scheme such as, preferably, a vastly undersampled isotropic projection reconstruction ('VIPR') scheme. Using VIPR and IR, combined with a unique projection ordering, a series of three-dimensional, high spatial resolution images with multiple different image contrasts can be obtained.