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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6529005 | Device for homogenizing a magnetic field The magnetic field in the working volume of an apparatus for measuring the magnetic resonance, in particular nuclear magnetic resonance, is homogenized in that shim plates are disposed at predetermined positions about the working volume and, in sum, do no... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6527181 | Device and method for characterizing and identifying an object A device and a method for characterizing and identifying an object, e.g. a container, with a surface visible from outside the object, onto which is disposed an optically readable one-dimensional bar code consisting of bars and spaces, are characterized in... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6402946 | Device for feeding a chromatography flow A device for feeding a chromatography flow coming from a flow source, in particular from a liquid chromatography (LC) separating unit or a peak sampling or trapping unit, in part to at least a first decision detector unit and/or at least a first destinati... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6389821 | Circulating cryostat A cryostat arrangement for keeping liquid helium comprising an outer shell (2), a helium container (6) installed therein and a neck pipe (4) extending from the helium container to the outer shell whose upper warm end is connected to the outer shell and wh... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6351125 | Method of homogenizing magnetic fields An iterative method of homogenizing the magnetic field in the working volume (8) of the main field magnet (1) of a magnetic resonance apparatus uses ferromagnetic homogenizing elements (6) which are mounted at predetermined positions (9) on one or more su... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6313634 | Device and method to homogenize a magnetic field The magnetic field in the working volume of an apparatus for the measurement of magnetic resonance, in particular nuclear magnetic resonance, is homogenized in that shim platelets are arranged in stacks in pre-calculated positions around the working volum... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6184683 | Method to improve resolution of two-dimensional heteronuclear correlation spectra in solid-state NMR A new two-dimensional NMR carbon-proton chemical shift correlation experiment, the MAS-J-HMQC experiment, is proposed for rotating solids. The magnetization transfer used to obtain the correlations is based on scalar heteronuclear J couplings. The 2D map ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6172587 | Ferromagnetic spatial shielding for the superconducting high field magnet of an NMR spectrometer Magnetic shielding for a superconducting magnet coil, arranged in the inside of a cryostat and having a vertical z-axis for generating a static magnetic field of a homogeneity of | 01/09/2001 |
| 6124103 | Arrangement and method of examining hydrophilic macromolecules in an aqueous solution An arrangement for the investigation of hydrophilic macromolecules (1) in an aqueous solution having a solid carrier surface (5) onto which a lipid film (24) is disposed, wherein the molecules (1) to be investigated are bound, by means of a molecular coup... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6016440 | Device for infrared (IR) spectroscopic investigations of internal surfaces of a body A device for infrared (IR) spectroscopic investigation of internal surfaces of a body, for example of blood vessels, comprising an endoscope (10) with light guide means to illuminate the surfaces is characterized in that at the distal end of the light gui... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6008936 | Grazing angle microscope The invention relates to a grazing angle microscope for spectroscopic applications. A novel light path having two shifting planar mirrors permits spectroscopic investigation of a sample area off the optical microscope axis at grazing angles as well as vis... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5998998 | Gradient coil for NMR devices A gradient coil (1) to generate switched magnetic field gradients in an nuclear spin resonance (NMR) device consisting of one or several current paths (a, b) following windings and being arranged on the surface of a geometric body is characterized in that... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5963322 | Optical spectrometer and method of implementing optical spectroscopy An optical spectrometer (1) with an interferometer having a means for varying the optical path difference comprising a drive (8), and with a detector (6) for recording optical signals from the interferometer and converting them into electrical analog sign... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5959454 | Magnet arrangement for an NMR tomography system, in particular for skin and surface examinations Magnet arrangement for a one-sided NMR tomography system having a permanent magnetic ring (4) of an outer radius Ra and an inner radius Ri and being magnetized axially in the direction of the z-axis and extending in the axial directi... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5926023 | Method of improving the resolution in two-dimensional heteronuclear correlation spectra of solid state NMR The invention concerns a two-dimensional heteronuclear correlation spectroscopy method for the measurement of solid state NMR samples. The nuclear spins are decoupled in the evolution interval by means of a FSLG-RF pulse sequence irradiated in the proton ... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5923422 | Method of obtaining an optical FT spectrum A method of obtaining an FT spectrum according to Brault is improved in that the compensation filter is determined by recording a broad-band effective interferogram, carrying out complex Fourier transformation, forming a mean value of the phase spectra, c... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5903152 | Magnet system The invention concerns a magnet system (1) for charging of a superconducting magnet coil (3). The magnet system (1) is characterized by control means (4) for reading-in and controlling which read-in data of a storage medium (7) associated with the superco... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5739689 | Superconducting NMR magnet configuration The invention concerns a superconducting magnet configuration for a high resolution NMR spectrometer which is highly stable over time and having a cryostat (21) with a vertical room temperature bore (23). A transverse access (32) through the cryostat (21)... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5726570 | NMR measuring cell The invention concerns a NMR measuring cell, in particular one for a flow-through probe head (1) and having at least a first inlet opening (10) to introduce a first injected or pumped reaction liquid into the measuring cell (1) and a second inlet opening ... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5660998 | Method for the rapid detection of microorganisms in samples The invention relates to a method for the rapid detection and enumeration of microorganisms. The spectroscopic detection is carried out, after brief incubation of the sample to be tested, by the detection of the growth of microcolonies, which is not yet d... | 08/26/1997 |