Patent ID: 6801800
Filing Date: 2004-10-05
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
An MRI system for obtaining an image relating to fluid within a region to be imaged of an object, comprising:a time phase setting unit configured to set two different cardiac time phases falling into a systole and a diastole of a cardiac cycle of the object; a scanning unit configured to perform, toward the region to be imaged of the object, an MR imaging scan starting in turn at each of the two cardiac time pahses set by the time phase setting unit to acquire two sets of echo data, the MR imaging scan comprising a first scan starting at one of the two cardiac time phases falling in the systole and a second scan starting at the other of the two cardiac time phases falling in the diastole, both the first scan and the second scan being based on a half-Fourier technique; and an image producing unit configured to produce, from the two sets of echo data acquired by the scanning unit, the image relating to the fluid.