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Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2009
Applicants:

Igor Mykhaylovich Savukov, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Andrei Nikolaevich Matlashov, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Michelle A. Espy, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Petr Lvovich Volegov, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Robert Henry Kraus, Jr., Los Alamos, NM (US);

Vadim Sergeyevich Zotev, Santa Fe, NM (US);

Inventors:

Igor Mykhaylovich Savukov, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Andrei Nikolaevich Matlashov, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Michelle A. Espy, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Petr Lvovich Volegov, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Robert Henry Kraus, Jr., Los Alamos, NM (US);

Vadim Sergeyevich Zotev, Santa Fe, NM (US);

Assignee:

Los Alamos National Security, LLC, Los Alamos, NM (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for performing an in-situ magnetic resonance imaging of an object. The method includes the steps of providing an atomic magnetometer, coupling a magnetic field generated by magnetically resonating samples of the object through a flux transformer to the atomic magnetometer and measuring a magnetic resonance of the atomic magnetometer.


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