SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OBTAINING SPATIALLY-ENCODED NMR PARAMETERS FROM ARBITRARILY-SHAPED COMPARTMENTS AND LINEAR ALGEBRAIC MODELING

摘要

An NMR method and system for acquiring and reconstructing a value of an NMR parameter spatially localized to a compartment of interest including performing a first MRI of a portion of a sample with a first MRI pulse sequence using the NMR system and using a set of k-space spatial encoding gradients or coil sensitivity encoding maps to obtain a first magnetic resonance image to identify a compartment of interest; generating a second MRI pulse sequence that encodes the NMR parameter with a subset of the set of k-space spatial encoding gradients or the coil sensitivity encoding maps; applying the second MRI pulse sequence using the NMR system to acquire spatial information relating to the NMR parameter from the compartment of interest; segmenting the first magnetic resonance image into a plurality of compartments that includes the compartment of interest; and reconstructing a value of the NMR parameter in the compartment.