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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.2066/CHENP/2012 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :06/03/2012 (43) Publication Date : 21/06/2013
(54) Title of the invention : IMAGE INTENSITY CORRECTION FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
(51) International classification :G01R 33/565
(31) Priority Document No :61/243193
(32) Priority Date :17/09/2009
(33) Name of priority country :U.S.A.
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(61) Patent of Addition to Application
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(62) Divisional to Application Number
Filing Date
:PCT/IB2010/053556
:05/08/2010
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(71)Name of Applicant :
1)KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
Address of Applicant :GROENEWOUDSEWEG 1
EINDHOVEN 5621 BA NETHERLANDS
(72)Name of Inventor :
1)HARVEY Paul R.
2)ROZIJN Thomas H.
3)VAN IJPEREN Gerrit Hendrik.
4)PRINS Willem M.
5)MENS Wilhelmus R. M.
6)BENSCHOP Franciscus J. M.
(57) Abstract :
A magnetic resonance system comprises: a magnetic resonance scanner (10) including a multi channel transmit coil or coil system
(20) and a magnetic resonance receive element (22); and a digital processor (40) configured to perform an imaging process
including shimming the multi channel transmit coil or coil system (20) acquiring a coil sensitivity map for the magnetic
resonance receive element (22) using the multi channel transmit coil or coil system acquiring a magnetic resonance image using
the magnetic resonance receive element and the shimmed multi channel transmit coil or coil system and performing an intensity
level correction on the acquired magnetic resonance image using the coil sensitivity map to generate a corrected magnetic
resonance image.
No. of Pages : 25 No. of Claims : 14
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