Patent ID: 7924003
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A method for producing an image of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the image having a suppressed signal from a selected species, the steps comprising: a) acquiring, with the MRI system and at a plurality of different echo times, NMR image signals from a subject containing the selected species, wherein the selected species has a resonant frequency spectrum with multiple peaks, each of the multiple peaks having a different known resonant frequency; b) reconstructing images of the subject from the acquired NMR image signals; c) determining, from the images of the subject reconstructed in step b), a relative peak amplitude of at least two of the multiple peaks of the selected species; and d) producing, using the images of the subject reconstructed in step b) and the at least two relative peak amplitudes of the selected species determined in step d), an image depicting the subject having a suppressed signal from the selected species.