Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
Patent
1990-06-29
1997-05-13
Arana, Louis M.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Using a nuclear resonance spectrometer system
324307, G01V 300
Patent
active
056296240
ABSTRACT:
Switched magnetic fields (in addition to the usual pulsed magnetic gradient fields) aiding and/or opposing the usual constant static magnetic field B.sub.o are utilized so as to increase the signal-to-noise ratio for given available imaging sequence times and/or to provide special imaging effects.
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Carlson Joseph W.
Crooks Lawrence E.
Kaufman Leon
Arana Louis M.
The Regents of the University of California
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