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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2013
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Jürgen Erwin Rahmer, Hamburg, DE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus for detecting magnetic particles in a field of view, which apparatus includes selection coils, drive coils, receiving coils configured to acquire detection signals, and a processor configured to control the coils and reconstruct an image of the field of view from the detection signals. The processor is further configured to: identify in the detection signals one or more background time periods at which no magnetic particles were present in the field of view, wherein signal time periods at which magnetic particles were present in the field of view are interspersed with at least one of said one or more background time periods; use the detection signals obtained at the background time periods to correct detection signals obtained at the signal time periods; and reconstruct the image from the corrected detection signals obtained at the signal time periods.