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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:
Nov. 10, 1981

Filed:

May. 16, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:

Colin G Harrison, High Wycombe, GB;

Ian R Young, Sunbury on Thames, GB;

Assignee:

EMI Limited, Hayes, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324309 ;
Abstract

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) apparatuses have been proposed to examine slices or volumes of bodies, perhaps patients for medical purposes, by exciting resonance and detecting the resonance signals. In an NMR apparatus an G.sub.R field gradient, for selecting lines within a slice or volume, is formed of Gx and Gy components. These should match exactly in shape if not in magnitude. In practice this is difficult to achieve and it is proposed to monitor these fields and derive error signals for their deviation from each other or from a standard. The error signals are used to reduce the deviations so that continuous adjustment of the fields is provided.


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