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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:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ge Yokogawa Medical Systems, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
In order to provide a receive coil comprising a plurality of coils that make no coupling, and a magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus employing such a receive coil, when a receive coil is formed by disposing a plurality of loops of conductor,having series capacitors,, a low input-impedance amplifier,is provided with its input circuit connected in parallel to both ends of the capacitor,via an inductor,to achieve decoupling between the loops by a high impedance caused by parallel resonance of an LC circuit.