SIGNAL-PRESERVING NOISE DECORRELATION
    101.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190146048A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-16

    申请号:US16189430

    申请日:2018-11-13

    IPC分类号: G01R33/56

    摘要: In a method and apparatus for noise decorrelation of magnetic resonance (MR) measurement signals acquired by multiple detectors of an MR apparatus, which are disturbed by additive noise, noise signals and reference signals of the multiple detectors are used to determine an improved noise decorrelation matrix, which removes a noise correlation in the MR measurement signals of the multiple detectors.

    Iterative magnetic resonance fingerprinting reconstruction

    公开(公告)号:US10175321B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-08

    申请号:US15332336

    申请日:2016-10-24

    摘要: Disclosed herein is a method obtaining a magnetic resonance image of an object, comprising obtaining a first time evolution signal from a magnetic resonance signal from the object; performing a search of a compressed dictionary of magnetic resonance fingerprints to select a magnetic resonance fingerprint representative of the first time evolution signal, wherein the selected magnetic resonance fingerprint is an exact or approximate nearest neighbor match to the first time evolution signal; obtaining a magnetic resonance parameter associated with the selected fingerprint; generating the magnetic resonance image of the object from the obtained magnetic resonance parameter; and performing a second search of the compressed dictionary using the magnetic resonance image.

    Magnetic resonance imaging with undersampling

    公开(公告)号:US10145924B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-04

    申请号:US15405449

    申请日:2017-01-13

    IPC分类号: G01R33/561 G01R33/48

    摘要: A method for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is provided. A first sampling mask is provided for sampling along a first set of parallel lines extending in a first direction in k-space. A second sampling mask is provided for sampling along a second set of parallel lines extending in a second direction in k-space. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. A first set of MR k-space data is sampled using an MR scanner, by scanning a subject in the first direction using the first sampling mask. A second set of MR k-space data is sampled using the MR scanner, by scanning the subject in the second direction using the second sampling mask. An MR image is reconstructed from a combined set of MR k-space data including the first set of MR k-space data and the second set of MR k-space data.

    DENOISING MEDICAL IMAGES BY LEARNING SPARSE IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS WITH A DEEP UNFOLDING APPROACH

    公开(公告)号:US20180240219A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-23

    申请号:US15893891

    申请日:2018-02-12

    IPC分类号: G06T5/00 G06N3/08

    摘要: The present embodiments relate to denoising medical images. By way of introduction, the present embodiments described below include apparatuses and methods for machine learning sparse image representations with deep unfolding and deploying the machine learnt network to denoise medical images. Iterative thresholding is performed using a deep neural network by training each layer of the network as an iteration of an iterative shrinkage algorithm. The deep neural network is randomly initialized and trained independently with a patch-based approach to learn sparse image representations for denoising image data. The different layers of the deep neural network are unfolded into a feed-forward network trained end-to-end.

    MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING WITH UNDERSAMPLING
    106.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180203085A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-19

    申请号:US15405449

    申请日:2017-01-13

    IPC分类号: G01R33/561 G01R33/48

    摘要: A method for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is provided. A first sampling mask is provided for sampling along a first set of parallel lines extending in a first direction in k-space. A second sampling mask is provided for sampling along a second set of parallel lines extending in a second direction in k-space. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. A first set of MR k-space data is sampled using an MR scanner, by scanning a subject in the first direction using the first sampling mask. A second set of MR k-space data is sampled using the MR scanner, by scanning the subject in the second direction using the second sampling mask. An MR image is reconstructed from a combined set of MR k-space data including the first set of MR k-space data and the second set of MR k-space data.

    Spatially varying coil compression in magnetic resonance image reconstruction

    公开(公告)号:US10012717B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-03

    申请号:US14685635

    申请日:2015-04-14

    摘要: A method for performing a magnetic resonance image reconstruction with spatially varying coil compression includes using a non-Cartesian acquisition scheme to acquire a multi-coil k-space dataset fully sampled along a fully sampled direction and decoupling the multi-coil k-space dataset along the fully sampled direction to yield a plurality of uncompressed coil data matrices. The plurality of uncompressed coil data matrices are compressed to yield a plurality of virtual coil data matrices which are aligned along the fully sampled direction to yield a plurality of aligned virtual coil data matrices. The aligned virtual coil data matrices are coupled along the fully sampled direction to yield a compressed multi-coil k-space dataset. Intensity values in the plurality of aligned virtual coil data matrices are normalized based on the plurality of uncompressed coil data matrices and an image is reconstructed using the compressed multi-coil k-space dataset.