Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Spectrometer components
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-01
2011-10-04
Vargas, Dixomara (Department: 2858)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Spectrometer components
Reexamination Certificate
active
08030926
ABSTRACT:
This invention provides arrays of counter rotating current surface coils for simultaneous reception and transmission with a volume coil for improved signal-to-noise ratio and radio frequency field homogeneity for in particular high-field (4-8 T) imaging of deep body regions, such as central brain structures.
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Avdievich Nikolai I.
Hetherington Hoby P.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP
Vargas Dixomara
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