A TIME-CLUSTERED CARDIO-RESPIRATORY ENCODER AND METHOD FOR CLUSTERING CARDIO-RESPIRATORY SIGNALS

摘要

The invention pertains to a method and its implementation in an encoder for retrospectively cluste­ring NMR k-space measurement profiles in the cardiac phase respiratory phase plane, which method and encoder function to: 1) reduce cardio-vascular and respiratory flow motion image artifacts, and 2) to characterized quantita­tively cardiac structure/function both with and without imaging.