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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Albert Macovski, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324309 ;
Abstract
A pulsed strong magnetic field is applied to an object creating a magnetic moment distribution. Following the pulse a set of spatially orthogonal gradient fields pointed normal to the magnetic moments are used to cause the magnetic moments to precess around the axis of the gradient fields, producing time-varying magnetic fields indicative of the spatial distribution of the magnetic moments. These are then detected, processed and used to make magnetic resonance images of the object.