Echo planar imaging method and device
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Current Assignee / Owner
- SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE
- Publication Date
- 2015-08-26
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Abstract
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【Technical field】
[0001] The invention relates to magnetic resonance imaging technology, in particular to a planar echo imaging method and device. 【Background technique】
[0002] Echo Plane Imaging (EPI) technology is widely used because of its sampling speed. At the same time, its application range is limited because of the interference of N / 2 artifacts in the generated image. Generally, reference correction is performed on echo-planar imaging data to eliminate or reduce artifact interference by using the method of acquiring reference data before imaging data. However, when the eddy current response of each gradient axis is different, the time delay is different, or the gradient amplifier has nonlinear characteristics, N / 2 artifacts ( Nyquist Ghost). Because it comes from the uneven distribution of K space in the phase encoding direction, and the reference data cannot obtain the information in the phase encoding direction dimension, this artifact cannot be eliminated by ...