Improvement of the acquisition of a large amount of MR images on a conventional whole body system.
Modern whole body MR systems are equipped with echo-planar-imaging capability, which allows the measurement of a single slice in a fraction of a second or of thousands of images in few minutes. A considerable restriction to the acquisition of series containing large amounts of images in patient examinations is the time-consuming data handling time of the images at conventional systems, which includes the time to insert the images into the systems database. We propose the arrangement of several images on a new image with a large matrix size like a mosaic. The handling time depends mostly on the number of images without consideration of their matrix size. Therefore, image handling is strongly reduced by the use of such mosaic images.
Klose
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Department of Neuroradiology, University of Tübingen, Germany. uwe.klose@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Erb
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Wildgruber
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Müller
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Grodd
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D003625:Data Collection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019992:Databases as Topic; D017352:Echo-Planar Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging