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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1981

Filed:

Jun. 15, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:

Michael Burl, Iver, GB;

Hugh Clow, Reading, GB;

Colin G Harrison, High Wycombe, GB;

Ian R Young, Sunbury-on-Thames, GB;

Assignee:

E M I Limited, Hayes, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324320 ; 324313 ;
Abstract

In a medical NMR apparatus it is desirable that the axial magnetic field, Ho, is uniform. The result can in theory be obtained by accuracy of construction but in practice this cannot readily be achieved. It is now proposed to use a field sensing probe system which indicates the value of that field at a plurality of positions in the examined region and provides error signals indicating deviations from uniformity. The field is automatically corrected in response to the error signals by applying currents to field correcting coils. The errors may be considered as distinct gradient and dishing errors which are corrected individually.


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