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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2012
Himanshu Bhat, Cambridge, MA (US);
Andre Jan Willem Van Der Kouwe, Woburn, MA (US);
Matthew Dylan Tisdall, Somerville, MA (US);
Keith Aaron Heberlein, Charlestown, MA (US);
Himanshu Bhat, Cambridge, MA (US);
Andre Jan Willem Van Der Kouwe, Woburn, MA (US);
Matthew Dylan Tisdall, Somerville, MA (US);
Keith Aaron Heberlein, Charlestown, MA (US);
National Institute of Health (NIH), The United States of America, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington, DC (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A system determines motion correction data for use in diffusion MR imaging using an RF signal generator and magnetic field gradient generator which sequentially acquire in a single first direction through a volume, first and second slice sets individually comprising multiple individual diffusion image slices. The first set of slices and the second set of slices are spatially interleaved within the volume, by providing in acquiring the second slice set, a low flip angle RF pulse successively followed by a non-diffusion image data readout magnetic field gradient for acquisition of data representing a two dimensional (2D) non-diffusion image used for motion detection of the first slice set successively followed by, a first diffusion imaging RF pulse followed by a first diffusion imaging phase encoding magnetic field gradient for preparation for acquiring data representing a diffusion image slice of the second slice set.