HEART IMAGING WITH ADAPTIVE INVERSION TIME
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1. A method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image of a heart, comprising the steps of:
- acquiring magnetic resonance signals from a heart in a subject by exposing the subject to a magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence including at least one pulse during which magnetic resonance signals from the heart are acquired, and including emitting an RF inversion pulse that inverts magnetization at least in the heart, at a point in time before said at least one pulse;
detecting cardiac activity of the heart; and
adapting said point in time of said RF inversion pulse dependent on the detected cardiac activity.
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Abstract
In a method for acquisition of magnetic resonance images of the heart, MR signals of the heart are acquired using an imaging sequence, wherein the magnetization is inverted by an RF inversion pulse before the acquisition of the MR signals; and of the heart activity is detected, and the point in time of the switching of the RF inversion pulse dependent on the detected heart activity.
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1. A method for acquiring a magnetic resonance image of a heart, comprising the steps of:
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acquiring magnetic resonance signals from a heart in a subject by exposing the subject to a magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence including at least one pulse during which magnetic resonance signals from the heart are acquired, and including emitting an RF inversion pulse that inverts magnetization at least in the heart, at a point in time before said at least one pulse; detecting cardiac activity of the heart; and adapting said point in time of said RF inversion pulse dependent on the detected cardiac activity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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