Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Spectrometer components
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-20
2008-12-16
Shrivastav, Brij B (Department: 2859)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Spectrometer components
Reexamination Certificate
active
07466131
ABSTRACT:
A system and method are provided for designing RF pulses for multi-channel and/or multi-dimensional spatially-selective applications using a linear approximation. Embodiments of the system and method may use a generalized linear-class large tip angle approximation to design RF pulses for multi-channel and parallel transmission. Further, some of these approximations allow for the design of arbitrarily large flip angles, irregularly-shaped flip angle profiles, or arbitrary initial magnetization values. Embodiments of the system and method may also provide for the design of k-space trajectories which aid in maintaining assumptions of the various linear class approximations.
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King Kevin F.
Liang Zhi-Pei
Xu Dan
General Electric Company
Shrivastav Brij B
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, SC
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