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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:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
US Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
The invention enables the temporal variation of the magnetic field generated by a gradient coil to be derived from the measured temporal variation of the current through this gradient coil and from a pulse response which has been determined once and stored for the relevant coil. In this case an inexpensive non-linear amplifier may be used in the gradient channel, and also a gradient coil with eddy current effects, without the reconstruction or the pulse design being degraded.