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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2003
Applicants:
Charles Dumoulin, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Randy Giaquinto, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Inventors:
Charles Dumoulin, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Randy Giaquinto, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V003/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A magnetic resonance imaging system comprises an array of radio frequency (RF) coils for producing controlled RF fields applying excitation signals to a volume of interest and a coil control circuitry configured to excite a single coil from the array of radio frequency coils at a given instant of time, where neighboring coils in the array are deactivated for the given instant of time.