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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:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Karl K Vigen, Madison, WI (US);
Charles A Mistretta, Madison, WI (US);
Thomas M Grist, Madison, WI (US);
Frank R Korosec, Madison, WI (US);
Richard Frayne, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600419 ; 600420 ; 324306 ; 324309 ;
Abstract
A dynamic MRA study of a subject is performed using a 3D echo-planar imaging pulse sequence. Four phase encoding views are acquired for each pulse repetition period (TR) and this enables higher resolution images to be acquired without a reduction of temporal frame rate or a loss of image CNR.