Patent Document ID: 8948534
Application ID: 13092382
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) processor system comprising: memory configured to contain data arrays representing an image of patient anatomy in a k-space domain and in a spatial image domain, a data array in one of said domains being transformable into the other of said domains by Fourier Transformation; and at least one data processor configured to low-pass filter the data array, in at least one of (a) the k-space domain or (b) the spatial image domain of said image of patient anatomy, to produce a low-pass filtered data array in the k-space domain or the spatial image domain; wherein, if the low-pass filtered data array is produced in the k-space domain, it is transformed into the spatial image domain; band-pass filter the data array, in at least one of (a) the k-space domain or (b) the spatial image domain of said image of patient anatomy, to produce a band-pass filtered data array in the k-space domain or the spatial image domain; wherein, if the band-pass filtered data array is produced in the k-space domain, it is transformed into the spatial image domain; high-pass filter a data array, in at least one of (a) the k-space domain or (b) the spatial image domain of said image of patient anatomy, to produce a high-pass filtered data array in the k-space domain or the spatial image domain; wherein, if the high-pass filtered data array is produced in the k-space domain, it is transformed into the spatial image domain; threshold and feather said band-pass filtered data array in the spatial image domain to produce an edge mask data array; multiply said edge mask data array with said high-pass filtered data array in the spatial image domain; and add the result of the multiplying to said low-pass filtered data array in the spatial image domain to produce a Gibbs' noise filtered image data array in the spatial image domain.