Flow adaptive guided determination of imaging parameters for 3D magnetic resonance angiography
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Sep 9, 2003
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Dec 5, 2002
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Mar 30, 2001
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Mar 30, 2001
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To image flowing materials, magnetic resonance preconditioning pulses are applied in an upstream region (28). For scanning a subject, an RF pulse calibration sequence is performed by generating a corresponding magnetic resonance data line (36.sub.1, . . . , 36.sub.n) in each of a plurality of slices (40.sub.1, . . . , 40.sub.n) along a vessel. A processor (54) determines a signal intensity for each slice (56), fits the intensities for the family of slices to a curve (58), and adjusts an RF pulse profile with spatial position in accordance with the curve which is dynamically dependent on the scanned subject. In a subsequent imaging sequence with the adjusted tip angles, data lines from each of the slices are received (52) and reconstructed (62) into an image representation stored in the memory (64).
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