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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tochigi, JP;
Inventor:
Wayne R. Dannels, Mentor, OH (US);
Assignee:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tochigi-Ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01); G01R 33/563 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56554 (2013.01); G01R 33/5611 (2013.01); G01R 33/56341 (2013.01); G01R 33/56581 (2013.01);
Abstract
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, method and/or computer readable medium is configured to effect MR imaging with reduced artifact by generating one or more image reconstruction maps from one or more prescans, acquiring a main scan dataset from a main MRI scan of an object, warping one or more image reconstruction maps to have geometric distortions substantially corresponding to geometric distortions in the main scan dataset, and forming a diagnostic MR image of the object using the main scan dataset and the warped one or more image reconstruction maps.