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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:
Aug. 13, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas K Foo, Waukesha, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324309 ; 1286532 ;
Abstract
A fast gradient echo, cardiac gated NMR scan is performed by acquiring groups of views during each cardiac cycle. Each group of views is preceded by an accelerator RF pulse and disdaq pulse sequences to improve T.sub.1 contrast and drive spin magnetization rapidly to dynamic equilibrium.