发明名称 METHOD AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPARATUS TO ACQUIRE MAGNETIC RESONANCE DATA OF A TARGET REGION INCLUDING A METAL OBJECT
摘要 In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus to acquire MR data of a target region that includes a metal object, an MR sequence that includes at least one radio-frequency excitation to be emitted via a radio-frequency coil arrangement is used. A radio-frequency coil arrangement having multiple coil elements that can be controlled independently with different amplitude and/or phase is used. The amplitudes and/or phases of the coil elements that describe the polarization of the radio-frequency field are selected to at least partially reduce artifacts arising in the metal object due to the radio-frequency excitation, in comparison to a homogeneous, circular polarization of the radio-frequency field of the radio-frequency field in the target region.
申请公布号 US2015008918(A1) 申请公布日期 2015.01.08
申请号 US201414321833 申请日期 2014.07.02
申请人 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 发明人 Nittka Mathias
分类号 G01R33/36;G01R33/565 主分类号 G01R33/36
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主权项 1. A method for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) data from a target region of an examination subject, which includes a metal object, comprising: operating an MR data acquisition unit, which comprises multiple, individually controllable radio-frequency (RF) coil elements, in which an examination subject is situated, said examination subject comprising a target region that contains a metal object, to acquire MR data from the target region using a magnetic resonance sequence that comprises at least one RF excitation of nuclear spins in the target region; in said MR sequence, radiating RF signals respectively from said multiple RF coils elements with respectively different amplitudes and/or phases, and setting the respectively different amplitudes and/or phases to produce a non-circular polarization of an RF field in said target region that reduces locally induced RF currents in said metal object due to said RF field, in comparison to RF currents induced by a homogenous, circular polarization of said RF field in said target region; and providing MR data acquired from the target region in said MR sequence to a processor and, in said processor, reconstructing an image of the target region from the MR data, said MR image comprising reduced image artifacts as a result of the reduced induced currents, and making said MR image available as a data file at an output of said processor.
地址 Muenchen DE