Color ensemble interleave with artifact elimination in time-gated anatomical imaging

摘要

A method for anatomical imaging includes configuring a sequence of scan lines for scanning of three-dimensional volume segments of an image volume in a subject. The sequence of scan lines is configured in a zig-zag order for minimizing an occurrence of motion artifacts between slices of the volume segments and throughout the image volume. Image data is acquired as a function of the sequence of scan lines and in synchronism with physiological cycles of the subject. The image data is representative of the volume segments of the image volume, wherein each volume segment contains image data distributed in three dimensions. The image data representative of the volume segments is combined to produce a representation of a three-dimensional anatomical image of the image volume. Furthermore, the method includes 3D color flow imaging wherein N slices per subvolume are scanned using zig-zag scanning across the N slices and along a width dimension of the subvolume. The method also includes slice reversal zig-zag scanning between neighboring subvolumes.