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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. 23, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter Heubes, Poxdorf, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Münich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
In a multi-echo magnetic resonance imaging method a number of high-frequency pulses are generated involving a high-frequency excitation pulse and a number of following high-frequency refocusing pulses, at least two phase encoding gradient pulses are respectively generated between the high-frequency refocusing pulses, and at least two compensation phase encoding gradient pulses are generated between the high-frequency excitation pulse and the first high-frequency refocusing pulse.