Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Spectrometer components
Patent
1997-04-10
2000-08-22
McElheny, Jr., Donald E.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Spectrometer components
324322, G01V 300
Patent
active
061077984
ABSTRACT:
In an MRI system including a source of a high frequency oscillating current having a required characteristic impedance and a probe having an impedance different from said required characteristic impedance and an adjustment circuit for adjusting the impedance of the probe to the required characteristic impedance there is provided an automatic circuit for matching and tuning the impedances: The circuit includes a first adjustable element and a second adjustable element arranged such that adjustment of the first and second elements causes adjustment of both a resistive component and a reactive component of the impedance and such that, over at least a part of a range, adjustment of the first element while the second element remains constant generates a change in the impedance which is substantially orthogonal to a change in the impedance obtained by adjustment of the second element while the first element remains constant and such that adjustment of the first element to a first required adjustment position and adjustment of the second element to a second required adjustment position causes the impedance of the probe to be adjusted to said required characteristic impedance. A detection circuit provides two separate output values which are orthogonal to one another and which are indicative of a difference in the impedance of the probe from said required characteristic impedance. The output values are indicative of a difference of the first element from the first required adjustment position and a difference of the second element from the second required adjustment position. The values are used for controlling respectively the first and second elements.
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Battison Adrian D.
McElheny Jr. Donald E.
National Research Council of Canada
Shrivastav Brij B.
Thrift Murray E.
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