General Electric Company

Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

Steven Christopher Davis

Jiang Hsieh

Robert F Senzig

Fazle Ali

Shawn P Faessler

Eddy Benjamin Boskamp

Scott Allen Lindsay

Daniel Joseph Weyers

Daniel Joseph Schaefer

Dewain Anthony Purgill

Timothy William Skloss

Roman I Dachniwskyj

Deependra Gangakhedkar

Julia Helena Anna Klinge

A system and method including an apparatus for use in electrically loading RF coils of an MRI system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a polymer interdispersed with an electrically conductive additive such that the apparatus provides the necessary electrical loading of the RF coils for testing and calibration of the MRI system but is free of liquid. Furthermore, the apparatus is capable of providing the requisite electrical load in high magnet magnetic fields without introducing image distortion as a result of standing waves within the apparatus.

System and method of electrically loading radio-frequency coils using conductive polymers

A CT Fluoro system which, in one embodiment, includes an integrated controller, image reconstruction algorithms for increasing the speed of image display, and an enhanced image display, is described. The integrated controller enables the radiologist to maintain control of the system throughout the fluoro scan. The image reconstruction algorithms are generally directed to increasing the image frame rate or reducing image artifacts, or both, in the CT fluoro scan. The image display generally provides enhanced images and control to the radiologist during a scan procedure.

Computed tomography fluoroscopy system

An RF coil loop assembly technique that maintains coil isolation at varying coil positions is presented. A mutual inductance compensation circuit connected in series with each RF coil loop of the coil loop assembly substantially minimizes the coupling, or mutual inductance, that forms between the RF coil loops. The mutual inductance of the compensation circuit substantially equals, and is opposite in phase or polarity, to the mutual inductance that forms between the RF coil loops as the RF coil loops move or rotate with respect to each other.

Method and apparatus to automatically maintain loop isolation in position variant MRI coils

A multiple channel array coil for magnetic resonance imaging is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the array coil includes an anterior section and a posterior section. The anterior and posterior sections are displaced from one another about a first direction, with both of the anterior and posterior sections further including a left portion and a right portion displaced from one another about a second direction. Each of the left and right portions further include a superior coil element and an inferior coil element displaced from one another about a third direction.

Multiple channel, cardiac array for sensitivity encoding in magnetic resonance imaging

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Steven Christopher Davis