Patent Document ID: 20140167754
Application ID: 14024999
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: characterizing a property of a material exposed to a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) fingerprinting pulse sequence, where the pulse sequence includes an excitation period and a readout period, where the excitation period is configured to produce a magnetization in a resonant species in the material and to divide the magnetization to produce two or more different echo paths, where the excitation period comprises an initial RF pulse, and one or more echo splitting RF pulses, where the readout period includes a readout gradient configured to facilitate acquiring two or more echo paths, where characterizing the property comprises comparing first information associated with NMR signals acquired from the material in response to the pulse sequence to reference information associated with NMR fingerprinting, and where the first information includes two or more signal evolutions associated with the two or more different echo paths.