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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. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2003
Applicants:
Gersh Z. Taicher, Houston, TX (US);
Arcady Reiderman, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Gersh Z. Taicher, Houston, TX (US);
Arcady Reiderman, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Echo Medical Systems, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01); G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is disclosed for measuring whole body composition. The method includes confining movement of the body to a selected volume, inducing a static magnetic field in the volume, inducing a pulsed radio frequency magnetic field in the volume, and receiving nuclear magnetic resonance signals from the body. The resonance signals from any part of the body are substantially independent of a position of the body part within the volume. Whole body composition is assessed from the resonance signals.