고속 Spin Echo 자기 공명 영상법에서 두 가지 $T_E$ 영상을 얻기 위한 새로운 방법

A New Technique or Dual $T_E$ Images Acquisition in Fast Spin Echo MR Imaging

  • 조민형 (수원대학교 전기공학과) ;
  • 이수열 (건국대학교 의학공학과) ;
  • 문치웅 (삼성 종합 기술원 의료기기 팀) ;
  • 조현화 (삼성 종합 기술원 의료기기 팀) ;
  • 이완 (삼성 종합 기술원 의료기기 팀)
  • Cho, M.H. (Dept. of Electrical Eng., The University of Suwon) ;
  • Lee, S.Y. (Dept. of Biomedical Eng., Konkuk University) ;
  • Mun, C.W. (Medical Electronics Team, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) ;
  • Cho, H.H. (Medical Electronics Team, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) ;
  • Yi, W. (Medical Electronics Team, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology)
  • 발행 : 1997.11.28

초록

In the magnetic resonance imaging, the fast spin echo imaging technique is a widely used clinical imaging method, since its scanning time is much shorter than the conventional spin echo imaging and it gives the almost same image quality. However, the fast spin echo technique has two times longer imaging time or the dual echo acquisition which can obtain a spin density image and a $T_2$-weighted image simultaneously. To overcome such a drawback, this paper proposes a new fast dual echo imaging technique which can give the same quality images at the single echo imaging time. The proposed technique reduces the imaging time by overlapping most of echo train data for each image reconstruction. In order to verify its validity and usability the human head experimental results which were obtained at the 0.3T permanent MRI system are presented.

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