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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. 27, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert R. Edelman, Highland Park, IL (US);
Assignee:
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corp., Evanston, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for forming a magnetic resonance angiographic image of a human body. The method includes the steps of applying a plurality of spatially non-selective radio-frequency pulses to the body, varying a magnitude of a phase-encoded gradient through the body in conjunction with application of the plurality of spatially non-selective radio-frequency pulses and detecting magnetic resonance imaging data from the body based upon the spatially non-selective radio-frequency pulses and varied phase-encoded gradient.