An Bao Vu

US Patent:

20210141040, May 13, 2021

Filed:

Jun 28, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/624755

Inventors:

- Washington DC, US
An VU - Washington DC, US

International Classification:

G01R 33/48
G01R 33/561
G01R 33/54

Abstract:

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) reconstruction of brain-state-specific images from slow, anatomical MRI image data. In an embodiment, for each of a plurality of stimulation sequences, an fMRI apparatus is controlled to capture a set of whole-brain image data of the same region of a subject's brain according to the stimulation sequence. Each stimulation sequence is configured to induce each of a plurality of brain states in a different sequence than any of the other stimulation sequences, and each set of whole-brain image data comprises a plurality of sub-acquisition segments. For each set of whole-brain image data, each sub-acquisition segment in the set is associated with one of the brain states. Then, for each of the brain states, a whole-brain image is reconstructed from a subset of the sub-acquisition segments, in each captured set of whole-brain image data, that are associated with the brain state.