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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Inventors:
Scott B. Reeder, Middleton, WI (US);
Diego Hernando, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/4244 (2013.01); G01R 33/4828 (2013.01); A61B 5/004 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for assessing magnetic susceptibility of tissue of a subject using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system to acquire chemical-shift-encoded, water-fat separated data. From the water-fat separated data, separated water and fat images, as well as a magnetic field inhomogeneity map are used to estimate the magnetic susceptibility within tissue.