Patent ID: 11950876
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for imaging a subject, the method comprising:
applying a radiofrequency pulse to the subject;
after a quiescent interval, performing a radial acquisition over a duration corresponding to a cardiac cycle of the subject to generate acquisition data;
reconstructing a plurality of 2-D images across a plurality of sequential temporal phases within the duration from the acquisition data, each of the 2-D images depicting a same partial cross-section of the subject and being reconstructed from a continuously sampled subset of the plurality of the sequential temporal phases; and
generating a temporal maximum intensity projection image of the same partial cross-section of the subject by tracking an intensity of each pixel across the plurality of 2-D images and selecting a maximum intensity value for the pixel across the plurality of 2-D images, which corresponds to a maximum intensity during the cardiac cycle, such that vascular stripe artifacts in the temporal maximum intensity projection image are removed relative to the plurality of 2-D images.