WO2006067727A3 - Magnetic resonance imaging system and method - Google Patents

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WO2006067727A3
WO2006067727A3 PCT/IB2005/054312 IB2005054312W WO2006067727A3 WO 2006067727 A3 WO2006067727 A3 WO 2006067727A3 IB 2005054312 W IB2005054312 W IB 2005054312W WO 2006067727 A3 WO2006067727 A3 WO 2006067727A3
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magnetic resonance
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Ulrich Katscher
Christian Findeklee
Peter Vernickel
Christoph Leussler
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Koninkl Philips Electronics Nv
Philips Intellectual Property
Ulrich Katscher
Christian Findeklee
Peter Vernickel
Christoph Leussler
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Priority to JP2007547755A priority patent/JP4926976B2/en
Priority to US11/721,544 priority patent/US7701211B2/en
Priority to DE602005013821T priority patent/DE602005013821D1/en
Priority to CN2005800445536A priority patent/CN101088022B/en
Publication of WO2006067727A2 publication Critical patent/WO2006067727A2/en
Publication of WO2006067727A3 publication Critical patent/WO2006067727A3/en

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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01R—MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES
    • G01R33/00—Arrangements or instruments for measuring magnetic variables
    • G01R33/20—Arrangements or instruments for measuring magnetic variables involving magnetic resonance
    • G01R33/28—Details of apparatus provided for in groups G01R33/44 - G01R33/64
    • G01R33/32—Excitation or detection systems, e.g. using radio frequency signals
    • G01R33/36—Electrical details, e.g. matching or coupling of the coil to the receiver
    • G01R33/3607—RF waveform generators, e.g. frequency generators, amplitude-, frequency- or phase modulators or shifters, pulse programmers, digital to analog converters for the RF signal, means for filtering or attenuating of the RF signal
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01R—MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES
    • G01R33/00—Arrangements or instruments for measuring magnetic variables
    • G01R33/20—Arrangements or instruments for measuring magnetic variables involving magnetic resonance
    • G01R33/44—Arrangements or instruments for measuring magnetic variables involving magnetic resonance using nuclear magnetic resonance [NMR]
    • G01R33/48—NMR imaging systems
    • G01R33/54—Signal processing systems, e.g. using pulse sequences ; Generation or control of pulse sequences; Operator console
    • G01R33/56—Image enhancement or correction, e.g. subtraction or averaging techniques, e.g. improvement of signal-to-noise ratio and resolution
    • G01R33/561—Image enhancement or correction, e.g. subtraction or averaging techniques, e.g. improvement of signal-to-noise ratio and resolution by reduction of the scanning time, i.e. fast acquiring systems, e.g. using echo-planar pulse sequences
    • G01R33/5611—Parallel magnetic resonance imaging, e.g. sensitivity encoding [SENSE], simultaneous acquisition of spatial harmonics [SMASH], unaliasing by Fourier encoding of the overlaps using the temporal dimension [UNFOLD], k-t-broad-use linear acquisition speed-up technique [k-t-BLAST], k-t-SENSE

Abstract

The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging system (1) comprising a plurality of RF coils (4) forming a multi-coil array and furthermore to a magnetic resonance imaging method for such a system. In order to provide an MR imaging system and method in which a desired excitation pattern is achieved in a simple way, it is suggested to utilize an analytical procedure how to combine the single coil elements to obtain the most homogeneous Bl excitation possible with a given coil array. In other words, the homogeneity of the Bl field is improved in a very simple way. The sensitivity of each RF coil (4) of the coil array is scaled or weighted by a complex factor, i.e. phase and amplitude of each coil drive signal is adjusted accordingly. These complex factors are determined analytically utilizing the sensitivities S (8) of the coil elements (4) and the desired excitation pattern P (IO, 11). The invention allows an optimized control of the field distribution (RF shimming) for arbitrary RF coil arrays. With the invention a fast and easy independent phase and amplitude control of the coil elements (4) is provided for reducing body- induced RF non- uniformities, which appear in high field MR systems.
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EP05850886A EP1831712B8 (en) 2004-12-22 2005-12-19 Magnetic resonance imaging system and method
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US11/721,544 US7701211B2 (en) 2004-12-22 2005-12-19 Magnetic resonance imaging system and method
DE602005013821T DE602005013821D1 (en) 2004-12-22 2005-12-19 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
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