Patent ID: 7994784

Claim:
A method for synthesizing data obtained from a DTI protocol in an MRI system, comprising: scanning with the MRI system a plurality of DTI directions of a test object having a plurality of anisotropic structures at least twice, wherein the test object comprises: a plurality of water-filled capillaries arranged into an array; and a housing, wherein the housing is substantially filled with a liquid, the array is housed within the housing, and the array has a generally polygonal-like shape and includes a plurality of arrays stacked in a plurality of rows in the housing and thereby forming a macro-array; producing at least two sets of resultant images and associated data for each DTI direction; determining an amount of noise in each of the resultant images; removing the noise from the resultant images to yield a noiseless image; scaling the data obtained from the scanning; adding the removed noise to the data; and calculating a new tensor.