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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2012
Hoby P. Hetherington, Woodbridge, CT (US);
Jullie W. Pan, Woodbridge, CT (US);
Hoby P. Hetherington, Woodbridge, CT (US);
Jullie W. Pan, Woodbridge, CT (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus for generating an effective equivalent of a simultaneous transmission of excitation signals to a targeted living tissue using an existing MRI system assembly or transceiver apparatus which structurally has a small number of independent transmit channels in operative communication with a large number of individual transmission RF coils. The inventive methodology and apparatus is suitable for use with any conventionally known and used transceiver apparatus which operationally complies with the requisite difference existing between the lesser available numbers of independent transmission channels and the greater number of individual transmit RF coils. For this reason, the methodology is broadly and generally useful for many different applications of magnetic resonance imaging technology.