Patent ID: 8639006

Claim:
A method for correcting saturation banding in magnetic resonance imaging comprising: acquiring at least one artifact calibration scan, with a timing that corresponds to that of an actual diagnostic imaging scan, the at least one artifact calibration scan comprising voxels in a plurality of rows and columns; acquiring at least one reference calibration scan, with a timing that corresponds to that of the actual diagnostic imaging scan, the at least one reference calibration scan comprising voxels in a plurality of rows and columns; summing the voxels in each row of the at least one artifact calibration scan to create an artifact row profile, summing the voxels in each column of the at least one artifact calibration scan to create an artifact column profile, summing the voxels in each row of the at least one reference calibration scan to create a reference row profile, summing the voxels in each column of the at least one reference calibration scan to create a reference column profile, dividing the reference row profile by the artifact row profile in order to obtain a row signal correction profile, and dividing the reference column profile by the artifact column profile in order to obtain a column signal correction profile; applying the row and column signal correction profiles to the actual diagnostic imaging scan.