Patent Document ID: 20170052241
Application ID: 15221989
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for tractography with magnetic resonance imaging, the method comprising: scanning a patient with a magnetic resonance imaging system for diffusion weighted data, the scanning providing data without diffusion sensitization and in phase-encoded and reverse phase encoded directions, the diffusion weighted data being in a subject space; acquiring, with the magnetic resonance imaging system, structural magnetic resonance data; correcting the diffusion weighted data with field maps estimated from the data acquired in the phase encoding and reverse phase encoding directions; denoising the corrected diffusion weighted data; registering a first atlas of tract maps to the subject space; identifying regions of interest through which tracts of the tract maps pass from a second atlas; generating a tractogram for the patient from the denoised, corrected diffusion weighted data, the tract maps, and the regions of interest; and transmitting an image of the tractogram.