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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188734 | 555 timer-based phase-to-voltage converter The 555 timer-based phase-to-voltage converter is a circuit that can be used for phase-to-voltage conversion for phase angles in the range between 0 and 2π. A first input signal triggers the 555 timer. A second input signal resets the 555 timer, and thus an output ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8134362 | System and method for recording and monitoring directives for vehicles such as airplanes A system and method for recording and monitoring directives for vehicles, such as airplanes, according to which directives for the airplanes are recorded and monitored to thereby provide a situational awareness of, for example, a predetermined area of an airport wit... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129990 | Image processing apparatus and computer program product An image processing apparatus includes a recognition unit that recognizes each cell area corresponding to a living cell from a series of observation images captured at observation time points; a measurement unit that measures cell characteristic amounts of each cell... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120356 | Measurement methodology and array structure for statistical stress and test of reliabilty structures System and method for obtaining statistics in a fast and simplified manner at the wafer level while using wafer-level test equipment. The system and method performs a parallel stress of all of the DUTs on a given chip to keep the stress time short, and then allows e... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8080995 | Device housing A device housing comprises a main body and a three-dimensional antenna. The main body comprises a first molded body and a second molded body formed on the first molding body. The first molded body is made of plastic, the second molded body is made of plastic mixed w... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8054072 | Quantum computer and quantum computing method A quantum computer includes a unit including thin films A, B and C each containing a physical-system group A, B and C formed of physical systems A, B and C, the films A, B and C being alternately stacked in an order of A, B, C, A, . . . , each of the systems A, B an... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8044661 | Method for determining a three-dimensional reconstruction of an examination object A provisional three-dimensional reconstruction of an examination object is determined based on two-dimensional original projection images. Provisional metal volumes are determined on the reconstruction by segmentation and mapped into the original projection images t... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8008914 | Low field SQUID MRI devices, components and methods Low field SQUID MRI devices, components and methods are disclosed. They include a portable low field (SQUID)-based MRI instrument and a portable low field SQUID-based MRI system to be operated under a bed where a subject is adapted to be located. Also disclosed is a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7999541 | System and method for improving the analysis of polymorphic chemical substance forms and concentrations using NQR A method for analysing a chemical substance containing quadrupolar nuclei to determine a measurable characteristic of the substance. The method includes irradiating the substance with RF energy in a prescribed manner to stimulate NQR of certain quadrupolar nuclei wi... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7928727 | Adapting acquisition time in nuclear imaging Methods of determining an acquisition time adapted to a region of interest for a nuclear imaging process of a patient include detecting radiation from at least a first viewing angle during a first test amount of time, generating first test data from the detected rad... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7898251 | Method and system for the individualized characterization of magnetic elements based on ferromagnetic resonance A method and system for the characterization of a magnetic element based on ferromagnetic resonance, the magnetic element presents ferromagnetic resonance and its own characteristic resonance frequency. The system includes mechanism for application of a low-frequenc... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7834621 | Electromagnetic tracking employing scalar-magnetometer Provided is an electromagnetic tracking system, including at least one electromagnetic field receiver having at least one scalar-magnetometer, at least one electromagnetic field transmitter, and tracker electronics. Also provided is a method for electromagnetic trac... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7808237 | Method and instrument of locally measuring protic solvent content in samples Excitation-use high frequency RF generated by an RF oscillator is modulated by a modulator based on control by a pulse control unit, to give a pulse form. The generated RF pulse is then amplified by an RF amplifier, and set to a small-sized RF coil. The small-sized ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7696750 | Parametric nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy system and method A system and method for probing a specimen to determine one or more components by utilizing a first signal to excite the specimen at a nuclear quadrupole resonant frequency and observing changes in a specimen property. One exemplary property may be dielectric consta... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7671586 | Apparatus and method for non-symmetric magnetic field balancing in an inspection scanner An inspection system positions a balancing shim to asymmetrically balance a magnetic field generated by an inductive sensor, which forms part of the inspection system. Additionally, relays and capacitors used to tune the inductive sensor to a desired resonance frequ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671587 | Low field SQUID MRI devices, components and methods Low field SQUID MRI devices, components and methods are disclosed. They include a portable low field (SQUID)-based MRI instrument and a portable low field SQUID-based MRI system to be operated under a bed where a subject is adapted to be located. Also disclosed is a... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7646197 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device and power consumption control device To perform execution scheduling of function blocks so as to control the total required power of the function blocks within a supplyable power budget value, and thereby realize stable operations at low power consumption. Function block identifiers are allotted to all... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7595638 | Apparatus and method for detecting metallic objects in shoes An inspection system positions a balancing shim to asymmetrically balance a magnetic field generated by an inductive sensor, which forms part of the inspection system. Additionally, relays and capacitors used to tune the inductive sensor to a desired resonance frequ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7586305 | Method for determining the absolute number of electron spins in a sample of extended size In a method for determining an absolute number of electron spins in an extended sample (3) with the assistance of an apparatus for measuring magnetic resonance, the extended sample (3) is disposed within a measurement volume (2) of a radiofreque... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7579832 | Cross-drive impedance measurement circuits for sensing audio loads on CODEC channels An audio system includes a CODEC audio jack having left and right audio ports and a jack sense circuit. The jack sense circuit includes left and right amplifiers and a cross-drive impedance sensing circuit. This cross-drive impedance sensing circuit, which is electr... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7560922 | Low temperature susceptibility compensation The NMR device with a magnet utilizes a composition exhibiting a desired value of magnetic susceptibility, wherein the composition comprises a metal ion selected from the group consisting of Gd+3, Fe+3 and Mn+2 and an amorphous mater... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7514921 | System and method for visualizing conductive and current density distribution in object System for visualizing conductivity and current density distributions including a plurality of current injecting devices (100) for injecting currents into a measuring object; a measuring unit(200) for measuring a magnetic flux density due to the curren... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7498806 | Apparatus and method for isolating noise from a signal A circuit is provided for isolating noise from an input signal to an Analog/Digital (A/D) converter. The circuit includes a plurality of multiplexers and a capacitor connected between the poles of two Single-Pole Multi-Throw (SPMT) multiplexers. A method is also pro... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7495435 | Method for the hyperpolarisation of atomic nuclei and device for implementing the method An apparatus for hyperpolarizing atomic nuclei through optical pumping has a cylindrical optical pumping cell having an inlet and an outlet spaced therefrom. A supply of a mixture of optically pumpable species and hyperpolarizable nuclei is connected to the inlet of... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7474095 | NMR spectroscopy using spin states with long lifetimes A nuclear magnetic resonance method and apparatus are disclosed. A sample is provided where the nuclear spin Hamiltonian operator of the component molecules of the sample possess one or more symmetry operations. A quasi equilibrium nuclear spin ensemble state in a s... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7436175 | Practical pulse synthesis via the discrete inverse scattering transform The discrete inverse scattering (DIST) approach is used to design selective RF pulses. As in SLR, a hard pulse approximation is used to actually design the pulse. Unlike SLR, the pulse is designed using the full inverse scattering data (the reflection coefficient an... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432708 | Temperature control method for a permanent magnet arrangement of a magnetic resonance system In a temperature control method for magnetic field components of a permanent magnet arrangement of a magnetic resonance system, temperature stability of the magnetic field components is achieved by maintaining the temperature of the two sides of the magnetic field c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7411392 | Parametric nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy system and method A system and method for probing a specimen to determine one or more components by utilizing a first signal to excite the specimen at a nuclear quadrupole resonant frequency and observing changes in a specimen property. One exemplary property may be dielectric consta... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405563 | Compensation of magnetic influence in a MWD system The present disclosure provides a downhole tool that includes a magnetometer and a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sensor. One or more compensating magnets are provided on the tool to cancel or offset the effect of the magnetic field of the magnets of the NMR senso... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400144 | Magnetic resonance force microscope A magnetic resonance force microscope (MRFM) generator for producing an RF magnetic field uniformly over the whole of a sample. A cantilever with magnetic probe tip is self-excited. Under this condition, spins in the sample are controlled to produce a magnetic reson... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397239 | Passenger screening system and method A screening system including a first modality comprising at least one inductive sensor, and a second modality including at least one metal detection coil configured to generate a magnetic field, said induction sensor configured to detect a change in the magnetic fie... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397241 | Method for determining the content of at least one component of a sample by means of a nuclear magnetic resonance pulse spectrometer A method is described for determination of the content of at least one component of a sample by means of a nuclear magnetic resonance pulse spectrometer, with the magnetization of the sample being influenced by a sequence of radio-frequency pulses such that the sign... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394250 | Mine detector with NQR-SQUID A portable small mine detecting device for detecting a mine by transmitting a radio wave and detecting the NQR of nitrogen 14 atoms (14N) contained in the mine using a high-sensitivity, high-temperature superconducting SQUID magnetic sensor. The mine detecting devic... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7388498 | Method and system for producing and reading labels based on magnetic resonance techniques The invention provides a method and system for labeling items, wherein the labels contain digital information and can be read when desired. The coding of the labels is done by choosing specifically engineered nano-particles, micro-particles, or liquid material in th... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388375 | Method and apparatus for magnetic resonance spectroscopy In the method disclosed here for magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the main magnetic field in the sample measurement region is generated in the form of a pulse, and the excitation and detection of the magnetic resonance is performed close to the pulse maximum within ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382125 | Tuned frequency portal for power transfer in MRI environment A circuit for isolating line voltage from a patient in an MRI environment, uses a filter network tuned to line voltage and incorporating blocking capacitors to eliminate the need for bulky air core transformers, complex energy transfer systems, and ferromagnetic com... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7375517 | Belt buckle and use thereof in magnetic resonance imaging A belt buckle includes a housing having a base, first and second sidewalls projecting from the base so as to form a substantially U-shaped member and a lug member projecting from said base. There is also an electrical switching fastened to the base that has a pair o... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372262 | Methods and systems for active non-intrusive inspection and verification of cargo and goods Systems and methods are disclosed herein for the non-intrusive inspection and/or verification of cargo. In an exemplary embodiment, an elemental signature is determined at a first point in a supply chain and transmitted to a second point in the supply chain. When th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370789 | Variable field-of-view gradient coil system for magnetic resonance imaging The present invention relates to a gradient coil system for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system comprising such a gradient coil system. Magnetic resonance imaging systems comprise at least a main magnet system, a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372264 | Contamination estimation using fluid analysis models Methods and systems are described for estimating of the level of contamination of downhole fluid using physical property measurements, and mathematical modeling of contamination functions and fluid property mixing laws. The proposed approaches enable computation of ... | 05/13/2008 |
