Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-31
2005-05-31
Mercader, Eleni Mantis (Department: 3737)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
C324S307000, C324S309000, C600S415000, C382S128000, C382S130000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06901282
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus are provided for forming a magnetic resonance angiographic image of a human body. A plurality of spatially non-selective radio-frequency pulses and a plurality of different combinations of phase-encoding gradients are applied to the human body, that are temporally non-coincident with the radio-frequency pulses and where each combination includes a pulse value in a slice selective direction and a pulse value in an in-plane direction and magnetic resonance imaging data are detected. A slice processor and/or a thickness processor identify the presence, location and/or thickness of a body portion of the human body. Identification of a body portion in a first imaging volume becomes the basis of application of a second plurality of spatially non-selective radio-frequency pulses to a second imaging volume of the human body.
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Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Inc.
Mantis Mercader Eleni
Welsh & Katz Ltd.
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