IP Library Granted Patent US 10,274,567
Granted Patent B2
US 10,274,567 · App. 14/513,736 · Granted Apr 30, 2019

Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image processing apparatus

Inventor: Hidenori Takeshima (Ebina Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
G01R33/5611G01R33/385G01R33/4818G01R33/56509
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Patent No.
US 10,274,567
App. No.
14/513,736
Granted
Apr 30, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to one embodiment includes an arranger, a sensitivity deriver, and an image generator. The arranger arranges time-series data at a part of sampling points out of sampling points of a k-space determined based on an imaging parameter. The sensitivity deriver derives a sensitivity distribution in a time-space, in which the time-series data transformed in a time direction is expressed with a coefficient value, based on the time-series data. The image generator generates an image of the time-series data using the time-series data and the sensitivity distribution.

Claims (32)

1. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising:

an arranger that arranges time-series data as a subset of k-space sampling points determined based on an imaging parameter;

a sensitivity deriver that derives a time-space sensitivity distribution, in which time-series data transformed in a time direction is expressed with a coefficient value, based on presence or absence of time-direction sensitivity and transformation data obtained by transforming the time-series data in the time direction; and

an image generator that generates an image of the time-series data using the time-series data and the sensitivity distribution.

2. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the arranger arranges the time-series data as a subset of sampling points for at least one direction in a space including a time-direction space and an image space.

3. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the sensitivity deriver derives a binarized sensitivity distribution that indicates presence or absence of time-direction sensitivity by binarizing the transformation data, and derives the sensitivity distribution by setting sensitivity of a pixel at which sensitivity is not present in the binarized sensitivity distribution to zero.

4. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the sensitivity deriver corrects the transformation data that has been quantized with an N-value, using a pattern of the time direction, and binarizes the corrected transformation data.

5. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the arranger arranges the time-series data such that sampling points of chronologically sequential frames vary in a predetermined direction in k-space.

6. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising:

an arranger that arranges time-series data as a subset of k-space sampling points determined based on an imaging parameter;

a sensitivity deriver that derives a time-space sensitivity distribution, in which time-series data transformed in a time direction is expressed with a coefficient value, based on the time-series data; and

an image generator that generates an image of the time-series data using the time-series data and the sensitivity distribution, wherein the sensitivity deriver derives the time-space sensitivity distribution using time-series data that is arranged at the sampling points and time-series data that is derived as time-series data of a point at which no time-series data is arranged.

7. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the sensitivity deriver derives the time-series data at the point at which no time-series data is arranged as zero.

8. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an arranger that arranges time-series data as a subset of k-space sampling points determined based on an imaging parameter;

a sensitivity deriver that derives a time-space sensitivity distribution, in which time-series data transformed in a time-direction is expressed with a coefficient value, based on presence or absence of time-direction sensitivity and transformation data obtained by transforming the time-series data in the time direction; and

an image generator that generates an image of the time-series data using the time-series data and the sensitivity distribution.

9. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising

a processor; and

a memory that stores processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

arrange time-series data as a subset of k-space sampling points determined based on imaging parameters,

derive a time-space sensitivity distribution, in which time-series data transformed in a time direction is expressed with a coefficient value, based on presence or absence of time-direction sensitivity and transformation data obtained by transforming the time-series data in the time direction, and

generate an image of the time-series data using the time-series data and the sensitivity distribution.

10. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising:

an arranger that arranges time-series data as a subset of k-space sampling points determined based on an imaging parameter;

a sensitivity deriver that derives a first time-space sensitivity distribution, in which the time-series data transformed in a time direction is expressed with a coefficient value, based on the time-series data; and

an image generator that generates an image of the time-series data using the time-series data and the first sensitivity distribution,

wherein

the sensitivity deriver derives the first sensitivity distribution based on a second sensitivity distribution and transformation data obtained by transforming the time-series data in the time direction, the second sensitivity distribution being sensitivity distribution in a space acquired for each channel.

11. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein

the sensitivity deriver derives a third sensitivity distribution based on the transformation data, and derives the first sensitivity distribution by correcting the third sensitivity distribution using the second sensitivity distribution.

12. The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the sensitivity deriver performs the correction when the second sensitivity distribution does not vary in the time direction.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2016
From: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
To: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 038008/0530 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 14, 2014
From: TAKESHIMA, HIDENORI
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA; TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 033945/0483 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-219879 · Oct 1, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2013076346 · Sep 27, 2013
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