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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:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Timothy John Havens, Florence, SC (US);
Xianrui Huang, Florence, SC (US);
Robert Sethfield Smith, Florence, SC (US);
Steven Ho-Chong Wong, Florence, SC (US);
Michele Ogle, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Bu-Xin Xu, Florence, SC (US);
Minfeng Xu, Florence, SC (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
A method for shimming a magnetic resonance imaging magnet requiring higher magnetic field homogneity on a small imaging volume and by magnetic field measurements on a larger volume providing small measurement error and practical field strength measurements and utilizing the spherical harmonic coefficients of the measurements.