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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:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph W Carlson, Kensington, CA (US);
Lawrence E Crooks, Richmond, CA (US);
Leon Kaufman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324309 ; 324307 ;
Abstract
Switched magnetic fields (in addition to the usual pulsed magnetic gradient fields) aiding and/or opposing the usual constant static magnetic field B.sub.o are utilized so as to increase the signal-to-noise ratio for given available imaging sequence times and/or to provide special imaging effects.