Patent ID: 7145336

Claim:
A method for creating one or more color-coded magnetic resonance images, comprising: acquiring a digitally-stored first gray tone series of images of a region of interest at a first predetermined time on a plurality of predetermined orthogonally-opposed planes using a plurality of predetermined pulse sequence parameters; applying a first color mask to the first gray tone series of images to create a first color masked series of images, wherein the first color masked series of images comprise a plurality of pixels that each represent a first state of a biophysical property of interest; acquiring a digitally-stored second gray tone series of images of the region of interest at a second predetermined time on the plurality of predetermined orthogonally-opposed planes using the plurality of predetermined pulse sequence parameters, wherein the second predetermined time is subsequent to the first predetermined time; applying a second color mask to the second gray tone series of images to create a second color masked series of images, wherein the second color masked series of images comprise a plurality of pixels that each represent a second state of the biophysical property of interest; and spatially-aligning and combining the first color masked series of images and the second color masked series of images to create one or more full color images comprising a plurality of voxels.