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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001

Filed:

Jan. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

John Alec Sidney Smith, London, GB;

Martin Blanz, Culham, GB;

Neil Francis Peirson, Northampton, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract

A method of detecting the presence of a particular substance in a given sample. According to the method, nuclear resonance is excited in a substance and response signals are detected from the substance using a probe. The probe is adjusted in dependence on the character of the sample. A method of detecting the presence of a sample which gives rise to interfering signals, not due to nuclear resonance, comprises exciting nuclear resonance in the sample, and detecting and processing the response signal from the sample in such a way as to at least partially filter out the interfering signals arising from the sample.


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