MR IMAGING WITH MOTION DETECTION
First Claim
1. A method of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of an object placed in the examination volume of a MR device, the method comprising the steps of:
- generating MR signals by subjecting the object to a MR imaging sequence of at least one RF pulse and switched magnetic field gradients;
acquiring the MR signals as a plurality of temporally successive subsets, each subset comprising a number of k-space profiles with sub-sampling of k-space, wherein the subsets complement each other to form a fully sampled set of k-space profiles;
reconstructing a single-subset MR image from each subset;
computing a gradient MR image from each single-subset MR image; and
detecting motion by comparing the gradient MR images with each other.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) placed in the examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to provide a method that enables efficient motion-compensation and/or motion-correction and that is compatible with Cartesian sampling of k-space. The method of the invention comprises: —generating MR signals by subjecting the object (10) to a MR imaging sequence of at least one RF pulse and switched magnetic field gradients; —acquiring the MR signals as a plurality of temporally successive subsets, each subset comprising a number of k-space profiles with sub-sampling of k-space, wherein the subsets complement each other to form a fully sampled set of k-space profiles; —reconstructing a single-subset MR image from each subset; —computing a gradient MR image from each single-subset MR image; and —detecting motion by comparing the gradient MR images with each other. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a computer program for a MR device (1).
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17 Claims
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1. A method of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of an object placed in the examination volume of a MR device, the method comprising the steps of:
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generating MR signals by subjecting the object to a MR imaging sequence of at least one RF pulse and switched magnetic field gradients; acquiring the MR signals as a plurality of temporally successive subsets, each subset comprising a number of k-space profiles with sub-sampling of k-space, wherein the subsets complement each other to form a fully sampled set of k-space profiles; reconstructing a single-subset MR image from each subset; computing a gradient MR image from each single-subset MR image; and detecting motion by comparing the gradient MR images with each other. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17)
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15. A magnetic resonance (MR) device including at least one main magnet coil for generating a uniform, steady magnetic field B0 within an examination volume, a number of gradient coils for generating switched magnetic field gradients in different spatial directions within the examination volume, at least one RF coil for generating RF pulses within the examination volume and/or for receiving MR signals from an object positioned in the examination volume, a control unit for controlling the temporal succession of RF pulses and switched magnetic field gradients, and a reconstruction unit for reconstructing MR images from the received MR signals, wherein the MR device is configured to perform the following steps:
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generating MR signals by subjecting the object to a MR imaging sequence of at least one RF pulse and switched magnetic field gradients; acquiring the MR signals as a plurality of temporally successive subsets, each subset comprising a number of k-space profiles with sub-sampling of k-space, wherein the subsets complement each other to form a fully sampled set of k-space profiles; reconstructing a single-subset MR image from each subset; computing a gradient MR image from each single-subset MR image; and detecting motion by comparing the gradient MR images with each other.
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16. A computer program to be run on a MR device, which computer program comprises instructions stored on a machine readable medium for:
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generating a MR imaging sequence of at least one RF pulse and switched magnetic field gradients; acquiring MR signals as a plurality of temporally successive subsets, each subset comprising a number of k-space profiles with sub-sampling of k-space, wherein the subsets complement each other to form a fully sampled set of k-space profiles; reconstructing a single-subset MR image from each subset; computing a gradient MR image from each single-subset MR image; and detecting motion by comparing the gradient MR images with each other.
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