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Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2012
Applicants:

James G. Reisman, Princeton, NJ (US);

Steven Michael Shea, Baltimore, NJ (US);

Inventors:

James G. Reisman, Princeton, NJ (US);

Steven Michael Shea, Baltimore, NJ (US);

Assignee:

SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH, Erlangen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/565 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56572 (2013.01); G01R 33/56563 (2013.01);
Abstract

Distortion correction is provided in magnetic resonance imaging. Distortions in one volume are corrected using another volume. The isocenter of the other volume is nearer to an edge of the one volume than the isocenter of the one volume. Using data registration, the other volume is used to correct distortions in the one volume. The other volume may be acquired in little time relative to the acquisition of the one volume by having a smaller field of view, lower resolution, and/or smaller signal-to-noise ratio. The other volume may be a connecting volume for correcting distortions in two volumes to be composed together.


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