MRI apparatus and method for generating automatically positioned 2D slice images of heart tissue from acquired 3D heart image data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8928318-B2
Application number	US-201113286364-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2011
Priority date	Nov 2, 2010
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

First magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) three-dimensional heart image data includes a plurality of two-dimensional heart image data superimposed and having a resolution in at least one direction that is different from that in two other directions. A first axis is detected in the three-dimensional heart image data. A first vector is calculated as passing through the first axis and having at least a predetermined resolution and generated image data on a plane passing through the first axis and the first vector is generated from the first imaging data. A second axis is detected relating to the heart from the generated image data, the second axis being a higher precision axis than the first axis.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus comprising:
an MRI gantry having MR image data acquisition and processing circuits including at least one computer and associated memory configured with executable computer programs which when executed by said CPU, operates to;
acquire three-dimensional first image data including a heart of a subject, said first image data including a plurality of cross-sectional two dimensional images that are parallel to;
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Assignees

• Nitta Shuhei
• Takeguchi Tomoyuki
• Matsumoto Nobuyuki
• Toshiba Kk
• Toshiba Medical Sys Corp

Inventors

• Nitta Shuhei
• Takeguchi Tomoyuki
• Matsumoto Nobuyuki

Classifications

• G01R33/4835

  Physics · mapped topic

• A61B5/0044 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G01R33/48

  Physics · mapped topic

• A61B5/055 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/7425

  Human Necessities · mapped topic