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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2014
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Matthew Robert Smith, Verona, WI (US);
Nathan Samuel Artz, Sun Prairie, WI (US);
Scott Brian Reeder, Middleton, WI (US);
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for simultaneously acquiring three-dimensional data from multiple different frequency bins with a magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI') system, and without frequency-encoding gradients, are provided. A multiband radio frequency ('RF') pulse is used to excite spins associated with multiple different resonance frequency offsets, and a fully phase-encoded acquisition is used to acquire data, which may be spectrally-resolved data, from magnetic resonance signals formed in response to the multiband RF pulse.