Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
Patent
1995-11-06
1997-04-15
Arana, Louis M.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
324307, G01V 300
Patent
active
056213212
ABSTRACT:
A sequence control (40) causes a transmitter (24) and gradient amplifiers (20) to transmit appropriate radio frequency excitation and other pulses to induce magnetic resonance in selected dipoles and cause the magnetic resonance to be refocused into a series of echoes following each excitation. A receiver (38) converts each echo into a digital data line. Each data line is regridded (70) for uniformity in k-space (FIG. 4). The data lines are one-dimensionally Fourier transformed (72) in a frequency encode direction. The one-dimensionally Fourier transformed data lines are multiplied (80) with a phase correction vector. A phase correction vector determining system (82) determines a corresponding phase correction vector for each echo number or position following excitation from a series of calibration echoes. To compensate for a decrease in magnitude with echo position following excitation, the intensity of each data line is scaled (90) to a common magnitude. The intensity corrected data lines are stored in a memory (96) and one-dimensionally Fourier transformed in a phase encode direction into an image memory (100). A monitor (104) converts the image memory representation into a human-readable display.
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DeMeester Gordon D.
Gullapalli Rao P.
Liu Haiying
Loncar Mark J.
Arana Louis M.
Picker International Inc.
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