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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:
Nov. 02, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
George J Misic, Novelty, OH (US);
Eric D Reid, Turtle Creek, PA (US);
Assignee:
Medrad, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324318 ;
Abstract
A magnetic resonance imaging receiving coil having an improved signal-to-noise ratio comprising two or more separate quadrature volume coils, each intercepting the two quadrature components of the magnetic resonance signal within its own sensitive volume, and the two or more quadrature coils being magnetically isolated from each other by overlap geometry along the axis normal to the plane of the magnetic resonance rotating field. The coils are connected to independent image processing channels of a data acquisition system, the outputs of the processing channels being combined to form an overall image.