Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Determine fluid flow rate
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-06
2007-11-06
Arana, Louis M. (Department: 2859)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Determine fluid flow rate
C600S419000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10711603
ABSTRACT:
An automated image processing technique is disclosed that evaluates pixels of a phase-difference image to determine those pixels corresponding to inflowing phase data and background phase data. Phase-difference images are generated from a first acquisition and a second acquisition. Non-zero spatially varying background phase from the phase-difference images that are due to eddy currents induced by flow encoding gradients used to generate the phase-difference images is determined. This non-zero spatially varying background phase is removed from the phase-difference images to determine phase associated with flowing spins and phase associated with stationary spins.
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Arana Louis M.
General Electric Company
Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, SC
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