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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2015
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Ti-chiun Chang, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Xiaoguang Lu, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Peter Speier, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for performing isotropic reconstruction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data includes receiving a stack of slices acquired by an MRI device in two or more directions and reslicing the stack of slices into (i) an acquired view stack comprising high-resolution slices acquired in-plane, and (ii) a reslice stack comprising degraded slices acquired out of plane. An estimated slice profile is generated based on the stack of slices and the acquired view stack is convolved with the estimated slice profile to yield a simulated distorted slice stack. The simulated distorted slice stack is subtracted from the acquired view stack to yield a high-frequency band estimate and the high-frequency band estimate is combined with the reslice stack to yield isotropic reconstruction results.