Patent ID: 11880962
Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 8:
9. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system comprising:
a gradient coil assembly configured to generate gradient magnetic fields;
a radio frequency (RF) coil assembly configured to generate RF pulses;
a display;
a controller in communication with the gradient coil assembly, the RF coil assembly, and the display and configured to:
instruct the gradient coil assembly and RF assembly to generate a sequence to perform a quantification scan, wherein the quantification scan is the measurement of MR signals reflecting absolute values of physical parameters of tissues being scanned;
instruct a trained deep neural network to synthesize a MR contrast image from a quantitative acquisition obtained by the quantification scan;
output the MR contrast image synthesized by the trained deep neural network at the display; and
wherein the quantification scan is the input to the trained deep neural network.