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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:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Aki Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides selective excitation of a slab by RF signals of frequency compensated for in response to the error in the gradient magnetic field in the slice axis direction and phase encoding in the slice axis direction with the phase compensated for corresponding to the corrected frequency, in order to capture appropriate magnetic resonance signals in three dimensional scanning when there is an error in the slice gradient.