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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
Applicant:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tochigi, JP;
Inventors:
Mitsue Miyazaki, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Cheng Ouyang, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Xiangzhi Zhou, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Assignee:
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara-Shi, Tochigi-Ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/5605 (2013.01);
Abstract
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, method and/or computer readable storage medium is configured to effect enhanced magnetic transfer (MT) effects and chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) effects. The configured techniques include irradiating an object in an MRI gantry by applying a sequence of magnetic transfer (MT) pulses over a range of different frequencies, and then applying an MR imaging sequence to the irradiated object.