Magnetic resonance elastography for ultrasound image simulation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9282933-B2
Application number	US-201113822372-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2011
Priority date	Sep 17, 2010
Publication date	Mar 15, 2016
Grant date	Mar 15, 2016

Abstract

Ultrasound data is simulated using magnetic resonance (MR) elastography. MR elastography provides tissue characteristic information, such as elastic modulus, velocity, or stiffness. This tissue characteristic information indicates a density or viscosity of the tissue, allowing simulation of ultrasound data with MR acquired data. The same MR imaging system may be used to acquire the MR elastography and pre-operative anatomy information. The actual ultrasound information may be registered with simulated ultrasound information for registration of the actual ultrasound information with the MR anatomy information.

First claim

I claim:

1. A method for ultrasound data simulation using magnetic resonance elastography, the method comprising:
obtaining with a magnetic resonance (MR) system MR anatomy data representing anatomy of a patient;
obtaining MR elastography data representing an elastic characteristic of the anatomy of the patient;
registering the MR elastography data with the MR anatomy data;
deriving, with a processor, information related to density from the MR elastography data;
simulating…

Assignees

• Kiraly Atilla Peter
• Siemens Corp

Inventors

• Kiraly Atilla Peter

Classifications

• A61B5/055

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/0035

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/0051

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B8/5261

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G01R33/4814 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic