8 results about "Arterial spin labeling" patented technology

A system for performing arterial-spin labeling (“ASL”) includes at least one memory configured to store instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to cause the system to perform a labelling phase and a control phase. The labelling phase includes a first plurality of radio frequency (“RF”) pulses and each RF pulse of the first plurality of RF pulses has a frequency offset and a phase offset. The control phase includes a second plurality of RF pulses and each RF pulse of the second plurality of RF pulses has the frequency offset and the phase offset and alternating RF pulses of the second plurality of RF pulses has an additional phase shift.

Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for magnetic resonance imaging. A method includes applying a radio frequency (RF) signal of a predetermined time duration towards a target, wherein the RF signal comprises a composite pulse that includes a velocity-selective pulse comprising RF pulses whose phase shift is modulated over the predetermined time duration, acquiring a magnetic resonance signal from the target resulting from the application of the RF signal, and generating an MRI image of the target from the magnetic resonance signal.

The present application relates to a target artery selective labeling method, device, electronic equipment and storage medium, comprising: acquiring a blood vessel positioning image of a target artery; determining a selective excitation pulse according to the blood vessel positioning image; and obtaining a perfusion map of the target artery by labeling according to the selective excitation pulse. The present application selects the position of the artery to be labeled, designs a selective excitation pulse targeting the artery based on a single-channel or multi-channel parallel emission platform, and applies the selective excitation pulse to the labeling section in the artery spin labeling sequence, thereby achieving the effect of selectively labeling a specific artery and obtaining a perfusion map of the specific artery.

The embodiment of the invention provides an image generation method, device and equipment and a computer program product. The image generation method comprises the steps that an artery spin labeling ASL image, reference physiological parameters and experiment physiological parameters are obtained, the reference physiological parameters and the ASL image correspond to the same subject in a standard gravity environment, and the experiment physiological parameters correspond to a subject in a microgravity experiment environment; determining an image generation model used for generating an ASL image in the microgravity experiment environment; and processing the ASL image, the reference physiological parameters and the experimental physiological parameters by using an image generation model, and determining a target ASL image of the main body in the microgravity experimental environment. In the embodiment, the ASL image in the microgravity experiment environment is obtained based on the ASL image in the standard gravity environment, the reference physiological parameters and the experiment physiological parameters, and convenience and reliability of ASL image obtaining in the microgravity environment are effectively guaranteed.

A method of operating a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes configuring the system to receive an input indicative of time intervals to be used for imaging a target object; controlling the one or more RF coils to apply a first order of modules including at least a first control module at a first time point and a first labeling module at a second time point to a target object, controlling the one or more RF coils to operate a second order of modules including at least a second labeling module at a third time point and a second control module at a fourth time point to the target object, wherein all the four modules invert the magnetization of the target object to suppress the MRI signal.

This application discloses a method, control method, system, and device for measuring labeling efficiency in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The measurement method includes: performing a measurement sequence scan on a target object; wherein the measurement sequence is used to measure the labeling efficiency of a corresponding arterial spin labeling sequence, the arterial spin labeling sequence including several labeling periods and imaging periods, with a delay time between the labeling periods and imaging periods; dividing the measurement sequence into corresponding measurement sub-sequences based on the delay duration of each delay time, and setting the measurement sub-sequences within their respective delay times; applying a first labeling pulse to the target object in each measurement sub-sequence to obtain a corresponding measurement image; obtaining the labeling efficiency of the first labeling pulse based on the measurement image, and using the labeling efficiency as the labeling measurement result of the arterial spin labeling sequence scan. By using the delay time of the ASL sequence to divide the measurement sequence into delay times, the overall scan time is shortened.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a fat pressing parameter determination method, device and system applied to arterial spin labeling imaging. The method comprises the following steps: according to an acquisition parameter set adopted by the ASL imaging, determining the longitudinal magnetization intensity of fat when a first fat pressing pulse for the ASL imaging begins to be applied; according to the longitudinal magnetization intensity of the fat when the first fat suppression pulse begins to be applied, the overturning angle or overturning duration TI of the first fat suppression pulse is determined, so that the longitudinal magnetization intensity of the fat when the first excitation pulse of the ASL imaging begins to be applied is the expected longitudinal magnetization intensity. According to the embodiment of the invention, accurate acquisition of the overturning angle or the TI of the fat pressing pulse is realized, and the accurate overturning angle and the TI are selected for the fat pressing pulse applied to ASL imaging, so that the ASL imaging quality is finally improved, and fat ghosting in an ASL image is reduced.