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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2012
Applicant:

Baolian Yang, Highland Heights, OH (US);

Inventor:

Baolian Yang, Highland Heights, OH (US);

Assignee:

Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/44 (2006.01); G01R 33/483 (2006.01); G01R 33/485 (2006.01); G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G01R 33/46 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/443 (2013.01); G01R 33/485 (2013.01); G01R 33/4838 (2013.01); G01R 33/56563 (2013.01); G01R 33/4625 (2013.01); G01R 33/5607 (2013.01);
Abstract

A magnetic resonance (MR) sequence () is performed, including: applying a preparatory MR sub-sequence (S prep) providing water signal suppression; performing a magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) sub-sequence (S MRS) after applying the preparatory MR sub-sequence to acquire H MRS data with water signal suppression; and performing an MR reference sub-sequence (S Ref) to acquire MR reference data. The MR reference sub-sequence is performed after the MRS sub-sequence. Phase and B0 correction of the H MRS data with water signal suppression are performed using the MR reference data to generate corrected MRS data. The excitation pulse (g) of the MR reference sub-sequence has a flip angle of less than or equal to o, and more preferably has a flip angle of less than or equal to 3 o. In some embodiments the MR sequence has a total repetition time (TR) of 2000 msec or less.


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