Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Determine fluid flow rate
Patent
1990-12-20
1993-04-20
Tokar, Michael J.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Particle precession resonance
Determine fluid flow rate
324309, G01R 3320
Patent
active
052046257
ABSTRACT:
A three dimensional image of a human brain or other body structure is constructed using a single flow sensitive data array and a flow insensitive data array to generate the contrasts necessary to differentiate among stationary tissues and also between stationary tissues and flowing blood. A plurality of data points from this combined image data are identified to tissue types and used to segregate the remaining data by using a nearest neighbor process in which each data value takes the tissue type of its nearest neighbor data point.
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Cline Harvey E.
Kennedy Thomas E.
Lorensen William E.
Souza Steven P.
General Electric Company
Mah Raymond Y.
Snyder Marvin
Tokar Michael J.
Zale Lawrence P.
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