Patent ID: 11885858
Assignee: PROMAXO, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 14:
15. A magnetic resonance imaging system, comprising:
a radio frequency receive coil configured to be placed adjacent to a target subject positioned in a region of interest;
a permanent magnet configured to provide an inhomogeneous permanent gradient field in the region of interest;
a single-sided gradient coil set that is non-planar and oriented to partially surround the region of interest, wherein the single-sided gradient coil set is configured to project a magnetic field gradient into the region of interest;
a radio frequency transmit system; and
a control circuit communicably coupled to the radio frequency receive system and the radio frequency transmit system, wherein the control circuit is configured to:
apply a sequence of chirped pulses having a wide bandwidth;
apply a multi-slice excitation along the inhomogeneous permanent gradient field, wherein the multi-slice excitation comprises exciting multiple slices along an axis of the permanent gradient field in the region of interest, and wherein each of the multiple slices comprises the wide bandwidth;
apply a phase encoding field along axes perpendicular to the axis of the inhomogeneous permanent gradient field; and
acquire a magnetic resonance image of the target subject.