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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:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Van Der Meulen, Best, NL;
Jan Bruijns, Grave, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1286532 ; 324309 ;
Abstract
A method for magnetic resonance imaging is described in which imaging sequences, consisting of RF- and gradient magnetic field pulses (RF, G.sub.x, G.sub.y, G.sub.z) are optimized with respect to a relevant parameter (SAR, signal-to-noise, etcetera) prior to applying the RF- and gradient pulse sequence to the object or patient (7) to be imaged. This reduces the amount of different sequences to a limited number of basic sequences from which an operator has to choose and allows adaptation of the sequence to the particular image to be obtained.