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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. 20, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas K Foo, Rockville, MD (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324306 ; 324300 ; 324309 ; 128653 ;
Abstract
NMR data for imaging perfusion of blood is acquired from a series of slice locations using a cardiac gated NMR pulse sequence. Data for the slice locations are acquired by a corresponding series of data acquisition segments performed during the R--R interval of each cardiac cycle. Selective rf saturation pulses are interleaved with the data acquisition segments to uniformly condition spin magnetization in each slice location.