Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-12
2007-06-12
Arana, Louis M. (Department: 2859)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
C324S309000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11134461
ABSTRACT:
Nuclear spin tomography (synonym: magnetic resonance tomography, MRT) is applied in medicine for the purpose of examining patients. A method is proposed for improving the image homogeneity of image data from phase-cycled steady state sequences in magnetic resonance tomography. In the method, both the sum of squares (SOS) and the maximum intensity projection (MIP) are calculated, pixel-wise, from the image data of the participating sequences. Further, a result image optimized with regard to image homogeneity is obtained by pixel-wise combination of the sum-of-squares image and MIP image.
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Arana Louis M.
Harness Dickey & Pierce PLC
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