Patent Document ID: 8131046
Application ID: 12290330
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for analyzing a patient comprising the steps of: imaging a first steady state free precession excitation slab with respect to a first position regarding a target during a first repetition time; forming a first 3-D dataset of the target associated with the first excitation slab; imaging a second steady-state free precession excitation slab with respect to a second position different from the first position regarding the target during a second repetition time; forming a second 3-D image dataset of the target associated with the second excitation slab; providing the first 3-D image dataset and the second 3-D image dataset, together defining a series of 3-D image datasets for each repetition time to a computer; and producing an image of the target by the computer from the series of 3-D image datasets.