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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2005
Applicant:
Yudong Zhu, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Inventor:
Yudong Zhu, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system composed of multiple transmit coils with corresponding RF pulse synthesizers and amplifiers is disclosed. A method of designing RF pulses specific to each transmit coil to induce spatiotemporal variations in a composite Bfield is also disclosed. The present invention supports faithful production of desired excitation profiles and accommodates the use of any coil array geometry. The present invention also supports reduction in excitation pulse length. Through effective Bfield maps for each transmit coil, mutual coupling and other inter-coil correlations are accounted for in the RF pulse design.