Patent ID: 8773129
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: accessing data associated with a magnetic resonance (MR) signal produced during relaxation of nuclei in an item that experienced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) excitation, where the MR signal is a function of two or more NMR parameters; accessing data associated with a set of comparative signal evolutions, where a member of the set of comparative signal evolutions is determined by a function of N NMR parameters, N being an integer greater than one; and computing a value for at least one of the two or more NMR parameters based on a combined correlation of the data associated with the MR signal to the data associated with the set of comparative signal evolutions, where the combined correlation depends on at least two correlations between the data associated with the MR signal and two different members of the set of comparative signal evolutions, the combined correlation comprising: