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| 8035380 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and image data generating method Some of plural coil elements or the sections which have received magnetic resonance image signals associated with first image data are determined to be target coil elements or target coil sections. Second image data is generated by combining a plurality of pieces of... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7932721 | Inductive decoupling of a RF coil array An apparatus for imaging includes: a radio frequency (RF) coil array having a first RF coil and at least one additional RF coil, where the RF coil array is adapted to generate an image signal; a preamplifier having an input impedance, where the preamplifier is adapt... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7906962 | Dynamic nuclear polarization enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance of water under ambient conditions A method and apparatus are provided for treating hydrated material in a fluid that contains water in which a stable nitroxide is attached to the hydrated material. A dynamic nuclear polarization process (DNP) is conducted on the hydrated material whereby to hyperpol... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7902824 | Method for transforming a distortion-corrected magnetic resonance image, method for carrying out magnetic resonance measurements, and image transformation unit A method for carrying out magnetic resonance measurements on an examination object in a magnetic resonance system is described. In at least one embodiment, a magnetic resonance image of the examination object previously acquired via the magnetic resonance system is ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902821 | Magnetic resonance apparatus and operating method with automated determination of an optimized radio frequency transmit mode In a magnetic resonance system and operating method to set RF transmit parameters for a radio-frequency antenna that is excitable in a number of different, linearly independent transmit modes, the transmit antenna is successively excited in the different transmit mo... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902822 | Method for adjustment of a B1 field of a magnetic resonance apparatus In a method for adjustment of a B1 field in a magnetic resonance apparatus, the position of the measurement subject relative to a coordinate system is determined from a plurality of measurement subjects with a morphological magnetic resonance measurement. Respective... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898252 | Phased array coil for MRI A method and apparatus for ameliorating high-field image distortion in magnetic resonance imaging of tissue. Two separate scans of a target region are taken with different phase and amplitude values for each scan. The phase and amplitude values of each scan are sele... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7893693 | Assymetric radio frequency magnetic line array An apparatus comprises a radio frequency magnetic field unit to generate a desired magnetic field. In one embodiment, the radio frequency magnetic field unit includes a first aperture that is substantially unobstructed and a second aperture contiguous to the first a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7888934 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus With a view to attaining a high quality of a diagnostic image there is provided a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus wherein an image is formed on the basis of magnetic resonance signals received from a subject with an electromagnetic wave transmitted thereto in a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884602 | Nuclear magnetic resonance evaluation using independent component analysis (ICA)-based blind source separation Disclosed is a non-lineal statistical independent component (ICA) analysis methodology for calculating T2 or T1 distributions of nuclear magnetic resonance logs. In one aspect, the invention employs a classical blind source separation (BSS) approach with the input d... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7880467 | Packed array of MRI/NMR devices and an MRI/NMR method of analyzing adjacent lines of goods simultaneously An industrial quality and process control (QPC) system, includes inter alia at least one packed array of MRI/NMR devices of substantially no fringing magnetic fields, adapted to analyze adjacent lines of goods simultaneously. ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876097 | Local coil arrangement with magnetic field sensor and magnetic resonance system with such a local coil arrangement A local coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance apparatus has a support structure with an antenna arrangement and a sensor arrangement embedded in the support structure. The antenna arrangement has a number of magnetic resonance antennas. A magnetic resonance exci... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876100 | Method and apparatus for actively controlling quench protection of a superconducting magnet A method and apparatus for actively controlling quench protection of a superconducting magnet includes a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system and a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program comprising instructions which when execut... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7872473 | Compact atomic magnetometer and gyroscope based on a diverging laser beam An atomic magnetometer that simultaneously achieves high sensitivity, simple fabrication and small size. This design is based on a diverging (or converging) beam of light that passes through an alkali atom vapor cell and that contains a distribution of beam propagat... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872475 | MR imaging with an RF pulse producing reduced magnetization transfer A system and method are provided herein for designing and transmitting RF pulses which cause a reduced off-resonance magnetization transfer saturation. An RF pulse shape may be optimized according to a set of Bloch solutions defining a desired magnetization profile.... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7868614 | Magnetic resonance system and method The invention provides a magnetic resonance system and method of measuring continuous regions at high speed without decreasing SN. As a receive system, multiple RF coil sets a, b comprising multiple RF coils a1, a2, b1, b2 are disposed in... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7863894 | Small optics cell for miniature nuclear magnetic resonance gyroscope A beamsplitter is arranged to split an incident laser beam into a pump beam and a detection beam. The pump beam passes through the beam splitter and then reflects from a pair of mirrors to a quarter waveplate into an NMR cell. After passing through the NMR cell, the... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7863895 | System, program product, and method of acquiring and processing MRI data for simultaneous determination of water, fat, and transverse relaxation time constants A system, program product, and method to determine water, fat, and transverse relaxation time constants in MRI scanning are provided. A method includes initiating readout gradient pulses to collect echo signals with identical phase encoded gradients to thereby produ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7855559 | Circuit and apparatus for decoupling RF surface coils A decoupling circuit for a radio frequency (RF) surface coil having a plurality of tuning capacitors includes at least two decoupling points and a DC source coupled to the at least two decoupling points. Each decoupling point is associated with one of the plurality ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7855557 | Gas nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus An NMR apparatus is provided, which is capable of being used for mass spectrometry and structure determination of a gas sample. The NMR apparatus includes: a sample vaporization unit 1 having a sample vaporization chamber 1a; an ionization unit ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7855558 | Magnetic resonance device and method MRI device arranged to a) generate a series of MR echo signals from a nuclear spin series having two or more spectral lines by subjecting at least part of a body (7) to an MR imaging pulse sequence using multiple time-encoding echo time values, b) acquire the... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7852083 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and gradient magnetic field coil An MRI apparatus excellent in magnetic field generation efficiency is provided. According to this invention, a main coil (52) of a gradient magnetic field coil (13) is partially recessed to reduce the total thickness of a radio-frequency coil (11 | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852074 | Apparatus and method for measuring cased hole fluid flow with NMR A method and apparatus useful to determine characteristics of fluid flow, such as fluid holdup and flow velocity. The apparatus comprises a flow tube, a permanent magnet, a first set of coils, and a second set of coils. The first set of coils creates a radio frequen... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852077 | Nuclear magnetic resonance measurement techniques in non-uniform fields Methods and pulse sequences for facilitating nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in grossly inhomogeneous fields. Methods and pulse sequences according to the invention may be used to accurately measure variables such as transverse relaxation time, longitu... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852080 | MRI apparatus including a lighting unit An MRI apparatus has a gantry, a bed and a lighting unit collective including a plurality of lighting units. The gantry accommodates a static field magnet configured to generate a static field, a gradient coil configured to generate a gradient magnetic field, and an... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7847549 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprises object placing means for placing an object in an imaging space, translating means for translating the object in a given direction by translating the object placing means in the given direction continuously or step-wis... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7834628 | Arrangement to transmit magnetic resonance signals via multiplexed multiplexer reception branches An arrangement to transmit magnetic resonance signals has at least two reception branches. Each reception branch contains a single antenna of a local coil as well as an amplifier connected with the single antenna, such that an amplified magnetic resonance signal is ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7834623 | MRI apparatus for analyzing body motion of a subject An MRI apparatus includes a navigator device for obtaining information of body motion produced by respiration of a subject by a navigator pulse sequence, and a respiration waveform display device for displaying a respiration waveform on the basis of the body motion ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830147 | RF coil assembly for MRI using differently shaped and/or sized coils A radio frequency coil assembly is provided. The radio frequency coil assembly includes: a first radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from a tested body; a second radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from the teste... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830148 | NMR sample tube An NMR sample tube for NMR measurement is provided. It includes a plug on both sides or one side of a sample to be measured, in an axial direction of the sample tube. The plug is adjusted to have magnetic susceptibility equal to or substantially equal to that of the... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7825661 | Method and apparatus for NMR saturation Saturation pulse sequences are designed to ensure complete saturation of nuclear spins for dual wait time measurements and saturation recovery measurements in the case of axial motion of a downhole NMR logging tool. Frequency and/or phase modulation may be used. An ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7821261 | Data processing system, data processing method, diagnostic imaging apparatus, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus A data processing system configured to process acquired image data (e.g., as part of a diagnostic imaging apparatus) uses a signal-power estimating unit for estimating signal power by using reference data containing data different from processing-target data and a d... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7821266 | Method and device for optimization of imaging parameters In a method and computerized device for determination of imaging parameters for the acquisition of a magnetic resonance image of an examination subject, initial imaging parameters are established, a calculation is made, based on the initial imaging parameters, of si... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7816916 | Magnetic resonance imaging method using a parallel imaging technique combined with a zoomed acquisition technique In a magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus, magnetic resonance data are acquired (an examination subject) using a zoomed method, and reconstruction of the image of the examination subject is undertaken using a parallel imaging reconstruction method. ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7812605 | Test object for nuclear spin tomographs A phantom for examination in nuclear spin tomographs comprises at least one test body for abstract imitation of a human or animal body part, and also means for supplying the test body with a liquid during the examination by nuclear spin tomography. Another phantom f... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808239 | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method facilitating pre-pulse setting A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging condition setting unit and an image acquisition unit. The imaging condition setting unit includes an input part for inputting an imaging condition with applying plural pre-pulses. The image acquisition unit ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808243 | Circulator and magnetic resonance device A circulator has a ferrite, and the circulator is arranged in the vicinity of a device that produces a static magnetic field in the environment surrounding the device, this static magnetic field giving the circulator a non-reciprocal behavior, with respect to circul... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804297 | Methodology for interpretation and analysis of NMR distributions Pulse sequences are applied to a fluid in an earth formation in a static magnetic field and NMR spin echo signals are obtained. The signals are inverted to give T2 distributions at a plurality of depths. Similarities between logs of the T2 bins... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804300 | Compact and flexible radio frequency coil arrays A radio frequency coils array includes a plurality of conductive RF loops (62a, 62b, 62c, 62d, 162a, 162b, 262a, 262b, 362a, 362b,... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7800369 | Hybrid automatic tuning/matching for NMR probes Remote adjustment of a selected one of a plurality of adjustable NMR probe circuit components is achieved with a plurality of selectable linear actuators, the selected one of which urges a platen against a respective driven gear, azimuthally locked to its shaft, to ... | 09/21/2010 |
