Patent ID: 6268729
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
A method of imaging an object by means of magnetic resonance (MR), which object is arranged in a substantially uniform, steady magnetic field, said method including the following steps:measuring MR signals from the object by means of MR imaging pulse sequences,filtering the measured MR signals so as to correct particular MR signals if necessary, to suppress shot noise, said filtering including assigning a corrected value which is related to the measured MR signals to a measuring point of a measured MR signal to be corrected, andreconstructing an image from the filtered MR signals,characterized in that the filtering of the measured MR signals by means of the method also includes the following steps for determining the corrected value of the measuring point to be corrected:determining a combination of a value of a parameter of the measuring point of the measured MR signal to be corrected and value of the parameter of measuring points in a vicinity of the measuring point to be corrected, andassigning the corrected value to the measuring point to be corrected if the combination exceeds a predetermined reference.