The invention consists of three image-postprocessing phases for the purposes of generating high-quality quantitative MR images (proton density (PD), T1, and T2) as well as high-quality virtual MR images with continuously adjustable computer-synthesized contrast weightings, from source images acquired...http://www.google.se/patents/US7002345?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7002345 - Synthetic images for a magnetic resonance imaging scanner using linear combinations of source images
