Patent ID: 6841997
Filing Date: 2005-01-11
Classification: A61B,G01R

Abstract:
1. A magnetic resonance tomography apparatus comprising: a magnetic resonance scanner adapted to receive a subject therein for exposing said subject to a basic magnetic field, exhibiting field inhomogeneities, and to a pulse sequence selected from the group consisting of spin echo pulse sequences and gradient echo pulse sequences, to excite a first spin ensemble and second spin ensemble in said subject, said first and second spin ensembles each exhibiting a magnetization and exhibiting respectively different chemical shift, said scanner obtaining nuclear magnetic resonance signals arising from both said first and second spin ensembles at respective echo times in said pulse sequence at which the respective magnetizations of said first and second spin ensembles reside perpendicularly, parallel and anti-parallel relative to each other; and a computer supplied with said nuclear magnetic resonance signals for Fourier transforming said nuclear magnetic resonance signals to obtain three complex images S