Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Spectrometer components
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-08
2008-04-08
Shrivastav, Brij (Department: 2859)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Spectrometer components
Reexamination Certificate
active
11175368
ABSTRACT:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus has a gradient magnetic unit that generates a gradient magnetic field, an obtention unit that obtains an oscillation characteristic of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to a change of the gradient magnetic field caused by imaging plural slices and a judgment unit that judges whether sympathetic vibration occurs based on the obtained oscillation characteristic.
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Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
Shrivastav Brij
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
Vargas Dixomara
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