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Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Bruker Biospin Mri Gmbh, Ettlingen, DE;

Inventors:

Alexander Weber, Karlsruhe, DE;

Ulrich Heinen, Ettlingen, DE;

Assignee:

Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Ettlingen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/12 (2006.01); G01R 33/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/60 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/1276 (2013.01); G01R 33/0029 (2013.01); G01R 33/5601 (2013.01); G06T 7/602 (2013.01); G06T 11/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method related to Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) includes a signal processing step in which MPI time signals are acquired and successive acquisition cycles are completed within one scanning period. From the scanning period, an image acquisition period is selected for which a composite time signal is generated by concatenating measured values acquired in immediate succession. A corrected time signal is determined from the composite time signal by windowing, performing a Fourier transform, and reducing a number of frequency values by eliminating intermediate frequencies of the Fourier transform of the windowed, composite time signal. In a reconstruction step, a spatial assignment and/or distribution of the magnetic particles is computed, and in an outputting step, the results of the reconstruction and/or one or more parameters derived therefrom are stored and/or displayed.


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