Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Patent
1997-07-29
1999-02-02
Kamm, William E.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
600413, A61B 5055
Patent
active
058657460
ABSTRACT:
A system for performing pulsed RF FT EPR spectroscopy and imaging includes an ultra-fast excitation subsystem and an ultra-fast data acquisition subsystem. Additionally, method for measuring and imaging in vivo oxygen and free radicals or for performing RF FT EPR spectroscopy utilizes short RF excitations pulses and ultra-fast sampling, digitizing, and summing steps.
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Cherukuri Murali K.
Mitchell James B.
Murugesan Ramachandran
Subramanian Sankaran
Tschudin Rolf G.
Kamm William E.
The United States of America as represented by the Department of
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