General Electric Company

Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

Delton A Grey, Jr

Christopher G King

Robert W Green

Granville G Ward, Jr

Evangelos Trifon Laskaris

James Pellegrino Alexander

Phillip William Eckels

Anthony Mantone

O'Neil T McClam

Greg Alan Lehmann

John E Book

Gregory F Hayworth

Antony Mantone

A method of forming a shimming body for a NMR assembly is provided. A magnetizable metal powder of known magnetic properties is provided. The powder is uniformly dispersed into a non-magnetic material to form a mixture having a selected uniform density. A selected weight of magnetic material is determined for a particular installation of an NMR assembly. The mixture is heated. A selected volume corresponding to the selected weight of magnetic material is extruded into a container. The mixture is cooled to form a shimming body.

NMR shim forming method

A magnet pole piece assembly has first and second pole pieces and at least one support member. The pole pieces have longitudinally aligned and facing surface recesses. The support member has a central segment and first and second end segments abuttingly and metallurgically attached to the central segment. The first and second end segments are positioned within a corresponding surface recess of the first and second pole piece and are abuttingly and metallurgically attached to the corresponding pole piece. An open magnet adds main coils to the magnet pole piece assembly.

Pole piece assembly and open magnet having same

A method to provide large sheets of Nb.sub.3 Sn superconducting material suitable for use as a superconducting gradient shield in a magnetic resonance imaging system magnet by heating an anodized Nb-1 Zr sheet, tin dipping and reacting the sheet, and subsequently quenching the sheet in a purged atmosphere to provide an improved time constant and lowered Jc heating when used in a superconducting magnetic field.

Niobium tin sheet for superconducting magnets

A superconducting magnet shield includes a plurality of overlapping NbTi sheets welded together with a plurality of welds extending along elongated parallel slots in the overlap region with the slots extending in the direction of superconducting current flow.

Superconducting joints for superconducting sheets

A metal-clad laminate having special utility in the production of high resolution printed circuit patterns and preparation of the laminate are described. The laminate preferably comprises a resin-bonded, glass-reinforced substrate, a layer of coupling agent covering and bonded to a major surface of the substrate, a layer of ultra-thin copper adjacent the layer of coupling agent, and a composite bonding layer disposed between the copper layer and the layer of coupling agent. The composite bonding layer comprises copper alloyed with at least one non-copper metal and oxide material of the non-copper metal.

Metal-clad laminate construction

A low temperature (about 0.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C.) method is disclosed for forming an ultrathin film of copper on an aluminum carrier sheet. By this method, which employs matte finish aluminum foil, the peel strength for separating the aluminum carrier from the copper film can be preset at a desired value between 0.1 and 2 pounds per inch.

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Florence, SC, United States of America

Delton A Grey, Jr