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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7358734 | Single-sided NMR sensor with microscopic depth resolution A low-cost single-sided NMR sensor to produce depth profiles with microscopic spatial resolution is presented. The open geometry of the NMR sensor provides a non-invasive and non-destructive testing method to characterize the depth structure of objects of arbitrary ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358732 | System, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for providing real-time motion correction by utilizing clover leaf navigators A system, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for correcting for a motion of an object are provided. In this system, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium, the navigator data and map data can be obtained for the object. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359540 | Systems and methods for correcting inhomogeneity in images A method for generating an estimate of inhomogeneity includes generating a first estimate of inhomogeneity, generating a second estimate of inhomogeneity, and generating a final estimate of inhomogeneity using at least the first and second estimates. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358729 | Methods and apparatuses for fast chemical shift magnetic resonance imaging Systems and methods are described for chemical shift magnetic resonance imaging in the presence of multiple chemical species. A method includes obtaining a plurality of MRI data signals using a Dixon technique in combination with partially parallel imaging technique... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358727 | Truncated MR imaging with fractional readout FOV useful for breast and spine imaging A method and system for MR imaging are disclosed that include a fractional readout FOV to provide flexibility in scan volume prescription as well as reduce scan artifacts typically associated with uninteresting anatomy. The fractional readout FOV is defined by a fre... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358730 | Diffusion tensor imaging using highly constrained image reconstruction method Highly undersampled diffusion weighted image data sets are acquired for a plurality of different directions using a projection reconstruction pulse sequence. The acquired projection views are interleaved and are combined to form a more highly sampled data set that i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355402 | Method and apparatus for hazardous liquid detection A method for hazardous liquid detection within a container includes inducing a static magnetic field in the container, inducing a radio frequency magnetic field in the container at a frequency selected to excite nuclear magnetic resonance phenomena in liquids; detec... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355403 | Noise reduction in diffusion tensor imaging data using bayesian methods A method and computer program product for reducing noise in diffusion tensor imaging data utilizes an optimization function performed on voxels or pixels of the image. The optimization function includes a neighborhood relevance component that considers diffusion ten... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355404 | System and method of SAR management for an MR scan A method and apparatus for RF deposition prediction model refinement measures an RF parameter during a scan and refines the RF deposition prediction model by a correction factor based on the measured RF parameter. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355405 | Magnetic resonance imaging system and magnetic resonance imaging method Provided is a magnetic resonance imaging system capable of reducing degradation in a magnetic resonance spectrum derived from a change in a static magnetic field. A sequence controller performs non-water-suppressed spectrum measurement (pre-scan) cyclically during w... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355407 | Methods and apparatus for single-shot magnetic resonance imaging with optimized isotropic diffusion weighting For isotropic diffusion weighting during magnetic resonance imaging, a motion-probing magnetic field gradient pattern is manufactured from a template by searching for an optimum value of a skew parameter (ε) of the template. The gradient pattern includes a first pa... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355597 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for the interactive rendering of multivalued volume data with layered complementary values Described is a system, method and computer program product for rendering volumetric multivalued primary data. The system includes a rendering engine having an input coupled to a source of multivalued primary data and an output coupled to a display. The rendering eng... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352182 | Automated selection of elements within phased array RF coils Described herein is a method for the automatic selection of elements within at least one radiofrequency coil used for imaging at least one slice of a volume using a magnetic resonance imaging system which includes performing a one-dimensional projection for at least... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352181 | Method of magnetic resonance imaging A method of magnetic resonance imaging includes exciting magnetic resonant active nuclei in a region of interest; creating magnetic field gradients; receiving radio frequency data from the region of interest; and producing an image by combining images obtained from ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352179 | Methods and apparatus for measuring capillary pressure in a sample A method and apparatus are provided for measuring a parameter such as capillary pressure in porous media such as rock samples. The method comprises mounting a sample in a centrifuge such that different portions of the sample are spaced at different distances from th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353148 | Generation of displays of solutions to physics problems represented by complex mathematical equations using quantum computations or simulation of quantum computations on classic computers Graphic displays or audio sound representations of numerical solutions of physics problems modeled by complicated, computationally complex mathematics are generated by Type I and Type II quantum computers, which employs a plurality of classically interconnected node... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352180 | Magnetic resonance detector for detecting non-authorized materials in footwear The present invention relates to a device for detecting a non-authorized material in a zone with protected access, the device being characterized by the fact that it comprises in combination: a supporting base (100) designed... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352370 | Four-dimensional volume of interest A method and apparatus for representing a deformable volume of interest in four dimensions is described, where the four dimensions are three spatial dimensions and one temporal dimension including discrete points in time, and where the deformable volume of interest ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349837 | Systems and methods for a programming environment for a simulation of a computer application The system includes a novel software application interactive representation modeling language, a software application (82) operative to use the modeling language to create, read and modify interactive representation models of the proposed applications, a memo... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348775 | Method for automatic shimming for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy A method for homogenizing a static magnetic field with a magnetic field distribution B0(r) for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy by adjusting the currents Ci through the shim coils, thus creating spatial field distributions Ci·S | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348780 | Asymmetric radio frequency coils for magnetic resonance Asymmetric radio frequency (RF) coils for magnetic resonance applications are provided. Also provided are time harmonic methods for designing such coils as well as symmetric coils. In addition, methods for converting complex current density functions into discrete c... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348776 | Motion corrected magnetic resonance imaging A method of correcting for motion in magnetic resonance images of an object detected by a plurality of signal receiver coils comprising the steps of acquiring a plurality of image signals with the plurality of receiver coils, determining motion between sequential im... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348779 | Magnetic resonance imaging method and system A magnetic resonance imaging method comprising a step for applying one or more gradient magnetic field pulses continuously, a step for calculating a residual magnetic field being generated from a magnet by an gradient magnetic field pulse based on a residual magneti... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349729 | Magnetic resonance imaging of different chemical species in a system having magnetic field heterogeneities A multi-point chemical species (e.g., water, fat) separation process which is compatible with rapid gradient echo imaging such as SSFP uses an iterative least squares method that decomposes water and fat images from source images acquired at short echo time incremen... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348774 | Method and an apparatus for image acquisition and display by means of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging A method for image acquisition and display by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, allowing display of images of an anatomical region along section planes or slices having different positions with respect to another, which method includes carrying out at least one th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345478 | Method and apparatus for detection of quadrupole nuclei in motion relative to the search region A method and apparatus for detecting quadrupole nuclei in motion relative to a search region, during the sensing operation, provides a system for decreasing the throughput time of quadrupole resonance (QR) detection systems. The apparatus uses a single QR probe, or ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345480 | Method, system, storage medium and software arrangement for radial prescription of long-axis slices in magnetic resonance imaging examinations A method, system, and software arrangement for automatically prescribing long-axis magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) slices of a target are provided. An MRI image is captured along a short-axis slice of the target. Vectorial components, including slice selectio... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343193 | Background suppression method for time-resolved magnetic resonance angiography A 3D projection reconstruction pulse sequence is employed during a CEMRA dynamic study to acquire a time course series of k-space data sets. Signals from non-vascular voxels are suppressed by reconstructing a corresponding series of low resolution images using the c... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342397 | Magnetic resonance imaging method A novel magnetic resonance imaging method is described, wherein undersampled magnetic resonance signals are acquired by a receiver antenna system having spatial sensitivity profiles and the image being reconstructed from the undersampled magnetic resonance signals a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339375 | Driven equilibrium and fast-spin echo scanning An NMR imaging process utilizes application of both a driven equilibrium technique and a fast-spin echo technique to acquire image. The fast-spin echo technique is a multiecho NMR imaging sequence, where different echoes are encoded differently to fill the (kx | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340225 | Method for monitoring an RF power amplifier, and an RF device, a monitoring device, and an MR system corresponding thereto In a method for monitoring of a radio frequency power amplifier and a radio frequency device, a radio frequency monitoring device and magnetic resonance tomography system operable according to the method, radio frequency pulses emitted by a radio frequency power amp... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340440 | Hybrid neural network generation system and method A computer-implemented method and system for building a neural network is disclosed. The neural network predicts at least one target based upon predictor variables defined in a state space. First, an input data set is retrieved that includes the predictor variables ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336073 | Method and system of determining in-plane motion in propeller data The present invention is directed to a method of MR imaging whereby a k-space blade extending through a center of k-space from a subject in motion is acquired. A high-pass convolution of the k-space blade with a reference k-space blade is then determined and convert... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336145 | Method for designing RF excitation pulses in magnetic resonance tomography Waveforms for radio-frequency (RF) excitations pulses used in magnetic resonance imaging are designed according to a Least Squares QR (LSQR) algorithm or a Conjugate Gradient Least Squares (CGLS) algorithm, to solve the linear system of equations that arises in a mu... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336076 | Magnetic resonance imaging involving movement of patient's couch A magnetic resonance imaging system performing various types of imaging that involves movement of a patient's couch. The system has a patient's couch having a tabletop movable in a predetermined direction passing through a static magnetic field as well as reception ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336986 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus An apparatus includes acquiring means for acquiring echo data of a plurality of views in which a phase difference between water and fat is 2π/m with spins within a subject brought to the SSFP state and repeating the acquisition for k=0 through M−1 with a step dif... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336072 | Method for representation of flow in a magnetic resonance image In a method for representation of flow in a magnetic resonance image, a first magnetic resonance image of an examination subject is acquired, wherein the flow occurring in the examination subject is not compensated in a first spatial direction; a second magnetic res... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332912 | Method for correcting inhomogeneities of the static magnetic field, particularly of the static magnetic field generated by the magnetic structure of a machine for acquiring MRI image An exemplary method for correcting inhomogeneities of the static magnetic field generated by the magnetic structure of a machine for acquiring nuclear magnetic resonance images includes determining the number, the position and the magnetic moment of dipoles compensa... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333846 | Method and apparatus for functional magnetic resonance imaging In a method and a magnetic resonance apparatus for functional imaging, a number of images without and with a designational stimulation of the examination subject are sequentially registered in successive alternation, and an information value that indicates whether t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332909 | MR imaging method A method for generating an MR image of an object situated in an examination volume of an MR apparatus begins with the acquisition of a plurality of echo signals having at least two different echo-time values (t1, t2, t3). The echo signals are ge... | 02/19/2008 |
