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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Lawrence L. Wald, Cambridge, MA (US);
Clarissa Zimmerman, Charlestown, MA (US);
Jason Stockman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Lawrence L. Wald, Cambridge, MA (US);
Clarissa Zimmerman, Charlestown, MA (US);
Jason Stockman, Cambridge, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A portable magnetic resonance imaging ('MRI') system that uses static magnetic field inhomogeneities in the main magnet for encoding the spatial location of nuclear spins is provided. Also provided is a spatial-encoding scheme for a low-field, low-power consumption, light-weight, and easily transportable MRI system. In general, the portable MRI system spatially encodes images using spatial inhomogeneities in the polarizing magnetic field rather than using gradient fields. Thus, an inhomogeneous static field is used to polarize, readout, and encode an image of the object. To provide spatial encoding, the magnet is rotated around the object to generate a number of differently encoded measurements. An image is then reconstructed by solving for the object most consistent with the data.
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