Patent ID: 8306289
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A method for imaging an object, the method comprising: (a) scanning the object with a scanner having a plurality of coils to obtain a raw time signal from each of the coils; (b) calculating an unaliased and deblurred image for each of the coils; and (c) combining the unaliased and deblurred images into a final image; wherein step (b) comprises: (i) demodulating the raw time signal from each of the coils to obtain a demodulated data set corresponding to each of the coils; (ii) convolving each said demodulated data set onto a Cartesian grid to form a gridded data set; (iii) forming unaliased Cartesian k-space data by performing an operation on the gridded data sets formed in step (b)(ii); and (iv) forming unaliased channel images from the unaliased Cartesian k-space data.