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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2012
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Mehmet Akif Gulsun, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Marie-Pierre Jolly, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Christoph Guetter, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
Phase unwrapping is provided for phase contrast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The velocity values are unaliased. For a given location over time, a path over time through a directed graph of possible velocities at each time is determined by minimization of derivatives over time. The possible velocities are based on the input velocity, the input velocity wrapped in a positive direction, and the input velocity wrapped in a negative direction, so the selection to create the minimum cost path represents unaliasing of any aliased velocities.