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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2013
Applicants:
Sung-min Sohn, St Paul, MN (US);
John Thomas Vaughan, Jr., Stillwater, MN (US);
Anand Gopinath, Wayzata, MN (US);
Inventors:
Sung-Min Sohn, St Paul, MN (US);
John Thomas Vaughan, Jr., Stillwater, MN (US);
Anand Gopinath, Wayzata, MN (US);
Assignee:
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/34 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01); G01R 33/345 (2006.01); G01R 33/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/34092 (2013.01); G01R 33/3456 (2013.01); G01R 33/3628 (2013.01); G01R 33/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for automatically adjusting electrical performance of a radio frequency (RF) coil assembly of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system during a medical imaging process of a subject to control changes in loading conditions of the RF coil caused by the subject during the medical imaging process.