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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:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2014
Applicant:
National Taiwan University, Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G01R 33/483 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01); G01R 33/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/5659 (2013.01); G01R 33/4833 (2013.01); G01R 33/5612 (2013.01); G01R 33/246 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for generating a specific flip angle distribution in magnetic resonance imaging; the method uses a plurality of RF transmission coils combined with linear and nonlinear spatial encoding magnetic fields to generate a homogeneous flip angle distribution.