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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:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tetsuji Tsukamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Ltd, 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 spin excitation method and apparatus for performing imaging with good efficiency while keeping within an SAR limit, and a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus employing such a spin excitation apparatus, an SAR of an object to be imaged in executing a pulse sequence is predicted ( ); and at least one among the number of pulses, pulse waveform and pulse width of the RF pulses in the pulse sequence is adjusted ( ) so that the predicted SAR value falls within a predetermined limit.