The multi angle oblique technique gives the ability to display anatomical structures in a variety of planes from the data acquired in just one MRI scan. This technique is useful, for example in lumbar spine MRI obtaining images of each intervertebral disc, individually oriented at a different angle, to better recognize herniation or to compare degenerative changes.
This technique is more difficult in the cervical spine MRI region because of the small vertebra and therefore a short distance between the multi angle oblique planes. In case of too short distance or overlapping slices the crosstalk (artifact) destroys the signal with reduced image quality.

Founded in June 1997, ONI was a privately held company headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts. ONI was focused on addressing the new healthcare economics by delivering the next generation of MRI machines: high field, low cost dedicated purpose systems. The company's first offering was the OrthOne™. Further developments lead to the MSK Extreme™, a 1.0 Tesla dedicated purpose MR system with v-SPEC™ Technology and DICOM Conformance for extremity applications.
In October 2009 GE Healthcare bought ONI Medical Systems for US$ 17 Billion.

MRI Scanners:

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Odin Medical Technologies, Ltd. was founded in Israel, in 1996. Odin Medical Technologies, Inc. was established in early 2000 in the United States as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Odin Medical Technologies develops and manufactures intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image guidance systems designed to improve neurosurgical interventions with a special focus on minimally invasive procedures.
As of July 25, 2006, Odin Medical Technologies, Ltd. was acquired by Medtronic, Inc.

MRI Scanners:

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(PRESTO) PRESTO is a 3 dimensional ultrafast gradient echo sequence that combines the whole brain coverage with T2* weighted imaging. PRESTO is useful for BOLD and perfusion imaging studies. In combination with parallel imaging techniques, PRESTO provides higher temporal resolution and more coverage compared to traditional multi slice imaging. In addition, the sensitivity to susceptibility artifacts and flow phenomena is reduced, compared with EPI techniques, enabling MRI scans throughout the brain including the skull base.

See also T2 Star.

In parallel MR imaging, a reduced data set in the phase encoding direction(s) of k-space is acquired to shorten acquisition time, combining the signal of several coil arrays. The spatial information related to the phased array coil elements is utilized for reducing the amount of conventional Fourier encoding.
First, low-resolution, fully Fourier-encoded reference images are required for sensitivity assessment. Parallel imaging reconstruction in the Cartesian case is efficiently performed by creating one aliased image for each array element using discrete Fourier transformation. The next step then is to create an full FOV image from the set of intermediate images. Parallel reconstruction techniques can be used to improve the image quality with increased signal to noise ratio, spatial resolution, reduced artifacts, and the temporal resolution in dynamic MRI scans.
Parallel imaging algorithms can be divided into 2 main groups:
Image reconstruction produced by each coil (reconstruction in the image domain, after Fourier transform): SENSE (Sensitivity Encoding), PILS (Partially Parallel Imaging with Localized Sensitivity), ASSET.
Reconstruction of the Fourier plane of images from the frequency signals of each coil (reconstruction in the frequency domain, before Fourier transform): GRAPPA.
Additional techniques include SMASH, SPEEDER™, IPAT (Integrated Parallel Acquisition Techniques - derived of GRAPPA a k-space based technique) and mSENSE (an image based enhanced version of SENSE).