Quarles & Brady LLP
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) fingerprinting with singular value decomposition (SVD) compression
Apparatus, methods, and other embodiments associated with NMR fingerprinting are described. One example NMR apparatus includes an NMR logic that repetitively and variably samples a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals that are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. The varying parameters may include flip angle, echo time, RF amplitude, and other parameters. The NMR apparatus may also include a signal logic that produces an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals, and a characterization logic that characterizes a resonant species in the object as a result of comparing acquired signals to reference signals. The reference signals may be stored in a dictionary. Singular value decomposition may be applied to the dictionary and the acquired signals before comparing the acquired signals to the reference signals.
Case Western Reserve University
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Mark Dan Debra
Griswold Ma McGivney