Patent ID: 9354290
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: A61B,G01R,G06T,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method to generate a magnetic resonance (MR) image of a predetermined volume segment of a living subject, comprising: operating an MR scanner to acquire MR data from a predetermined volume segment of a living subject, for different positions of a moving area of the living subject, said volume segment comprising a plurality of different regions within said volume segment; providing said MR data to a computer, and using said computer to determine the different position of the moving area and a respective tracking factor for each of said plurality of different regions of the volume segment that correlates movement of each different region to said moving area; for each of said different regions, using said computer to calculate a position of the respective region dependent on the position of the respective region and the tracking factor for the respective region, by determining the position of the respective region from the tracking factor dependent on a position of the moving area; and using the MR data and the calculated positions of the respective regions to reconstruct a motion-corrected image of each respective region wherein the calculated positions of the respective regions correct for motion of the respective regions due to said moving area, and making the reconstructed motion-corrected images available in electronic form from the computer as a data file.