Patent Document ID: 9568579
Application ID: 14024999
Patent Status: 1

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