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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:
Jun. 17, 1986

Filed:

Nov. 14, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:

Arnold H Lent, Macedonia, OH (US);

Waldo S Hinshaw, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);

Russell A Compton, Chesterland, OH (US);

Assignee:

Technicare Corporation, Solon, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324309 ; 324306 ;
Abstract

The effects of particle motion or flow within a sample may be measured by applying a motion-encoding gradient to the sample, along with spatial encoding gradients. The motion-encoding gradient applies two gradient fields of respective opposite sense to the spins of the sample so as to encode motion as a net phase component resulting from the two fields. Two image data sequences, one with motion encoding and one without, may be compared to measure the effects of motion, or a plurality of image data sequences may be taken, each with a different value motion-encoding gradient. A Fourier transformation performed on the sequence data in the latter case with respect to the variation in the motion-encoding gradient pulses will yield a plurality of images, each representing the amount of material which exhibits a different velocity.


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