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7183770 High-frequency system for an MR apparatus with multiple transmit channels  
The invention relates to a high-frequency system for an MR apparatus with a high-frequency coil arrangement comprising a plurality of resonator elements ( 104 ), which is connected to a transmit...
7180296 Magnetic resonance imaging receive circuit  
A magnetic resonance imaging receive circuit, for use e.g. within the body of a patient during an MR imaging procedure, includes a balanced MR coil ( 50 ) connected to balanced matching and...
7180291 Degenerate birdcage coil and transmit/receive apparatus and method for same  
A birdcage coil ( 16 ) used in conjunction with a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a first conductive loop ( 81, 581 ), a second conductive loop ( 82, 582 ), and a plurality of first...
7176688 RF coil and MRI apparatus  
An RF coil includes a plurality of concentric loops lying at different positions along a coil axis, whose sensitivity is improved in a central portion, and a plurality of loops are constructed as...
7173421 Nuclear spin resonance clock arrangements  
Nuclear spin resonance (NSR) clock arrangements.
7173422 Generator for generating time-variable magnetic fields and magnetic resonance device  
In one aspect, a generator for generating time-variable magnetic fields is provided. The generator includes a gradient coil having conductors extending in an area defined by a hollow first...
7173423 System and methods for testing operation of a radio frequency device  
A system and a method for testing a Radio Frequency (RF) device are provided. The system includes a light emitting source configured to transmit an optical test signal based on an RF signal and a...
7173426 Optical link for transmitting data through air from a plurality of receiver coils in a magnetic resonance imaging system  
An optical data link is provided for optically transmitting in free space data from a plurality of receiver coils in a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system. This free space (e.g.,...
7173427 Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method  
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a plurality of coils which receive magnetic resonance signals, a plurality of A/D converters which digitize the magnetic resonance signals, and a set...
7170293 Circuit arrangement for transferring signals form local MR coils to evaluation units  
A circuit arrangement for connection of at least two local coils of a magnetic resonance apparatus with at least two evaluation units has at least two sheath wave barriers arranged so that magnetic...
7167001 Installation for investigating objects using magnetic resonance  
An installation for the investigation of objects by means of magnetic resonance has a magnet system for the production of a homogenous magnetic field in an investigational volume and is...
7161511 Linearization system and method  
A system for training a linearization compensation model includes a tone generator for providing at least two different RF tones, receiver path components for processing the RF tones, an...
7161353 Magnetic resonance tomograph with an insertable gradient coil and a bundled detachably coupled water and electrical supply line  
The present invention relates to a nuclear spin tomography device comprising a basic field magnet, a whole body gradient coil system with an HF antenna ( 1 ) surrounded by a suspension tube ( 2 )...
7151373 Antenna arrangement for acquisition of a magnetic resonance signal  
An antenna arrangement for acquisition of a magnetic resonance signal has at least two acquisition antennas, each having at least one conductor loop and each conductor loop having an interruption...
7151372 Method and means of multi-activation of ions and atoms with nmr and epr  
The invention uses one inductor, which is formed of one, two or a few twisted or parallel conductors, and exposes a sample object in a pulsed and damped alternating magnetic field (B) without...
7145338 Method for implementation of a magnetic resonance examination of a patient  
In a method for implementation of a magnetic resonance examination of a patient with an imaging medical magnetic resonance apparatus with a movable patient bed, for of an examination volume of the...
7145339 Method and apparatus for discrete shielding of volume RFcoil arrays  
The subject invention pertains to a technique and device that can isolate and separate resultant electromagnetic fields of volume coils at high frequency. In an embodiment, an RF shield can be used...
7145337 Coil arrangements  
Apparatus ( 10 ) for use in MRIS includes a coil arrangement having drive coils ( 20 ), shield coils ( 30 ) and a power supply unit (PSU) ( 40 ). The drive coils ( 20 ) and the shield coils ( 30 )...
7141980 Apparatuses for enabling operation of adjacent coil loops with a magnetic resonance system  
An apparatus for enabling operation of adjacent coil loops with a magnetic resonance system. The apparatus includes a correction network interconnecting the coil loops for enabling both concurrent...
7141979 Cryo head with a plurality of heat exchangers for cooling the RF coils or resonators  
A cryohead ( 1 ) for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements, comprising at least one detection channel for receiving NMR signals and at least one transmitting and decoupling channel, wherein...
7141975 Nuclear magnetic resonance system  
An NMR system that enables multiplex resonance measurement includes a superconductivity reception coil, a transmission coil, and four electric current loops. The NMR system also includes an...
7141976 Method and control device for determining the position of a local coil on a patient table of a magnetic resonance scanner  
In a method and control device for determining the position in at least one spatial direction of a local coil on a patient table in a scanner of a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, a...
7138801 NMR spectrometer and NMR probe  
An NMR probe having a high-sensitivity solenoid probe coil for receiving free induction decay (FID) signals in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and an NMR spectrometer which...
7138802 Nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus probe  
A nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus comprises a superconducting magnet that produces a static magnetic field, a probe having a probe coil that irradiates an RF pulse magnetic field and receives...
7135864 System and method of elliptically driving an MRI Coil  
An RF coil apparatus for generating an elliptical polarization field includes an RF coil assembly having a pair of independent drive channels connected thereto. The drive channels are driven such...
7135866 Multifrequency power circuit and probe and NMR spectrometer comprising such a circuit  
A multifrequency power circuit of an NMR coil, includes two power or transmission line segments called principal line segments, each including a segment of a conductor that is attached to the coil,...
7133713 Integrated multi-rail imaging system  
The imaging system can comprise a plurality of elongated rails, a scanhead assembly, and a small animal mount assembly. The scanhead assembly is selectively mounted onto a first rail and is...
7132829 NMR RF coils with improved low-frequency efficiency  
According to one aspect, the low-frequency (e.g. lock channel) performance of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) saddle-shaped, distributed-capacitance radio-frequency (RF) coil is improved by...
7132830 Radiofrequency wave transmission circuit using arbitrary waveform generator and NMR apparatus using the same  
An NMR apparatus has a circuit adapted to improve the degree freedom of design and generate an excitation radiofrequency wave pulse suited for a sample to be measured. The radiofrequency wave...
7126337 Reception unit for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus  
A reception unit for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus has an RF preamplifier connected at its signal input to a local coil with a PIN diode connected in parallel with the signal input and...
7126336 Nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus having a controllable detector  
In an NMR apparatus having an analog-to-digital converter for converting the voltage signal V(t) to a digital signal, a reference signal generator for generating reference waves which are digital...
7123011 Method of producing an MRI image with gradient delay compensation  
Gradient pulses are generated by current conducting gradient coils. High-frequency components cause the center of gravity of the current to be shifted by mutual influencing of the coil conductors....
7123015 Magnetic resonance system and method  
A magnetic resonance (MR) system and method for generating information about an object is provided. The MR system comprises at least one MR detector configured to sense a plurality of...
7119543 Generator device for generating a magnetic resonance excitation signal  
A generator device for a magnetic resonance excitation signal has a signal divider that divides an input signal supplied to it via an input element into at least two sub-signals and supplies them...
7119541 Multiply-tuned volume resonator for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy  
A multiply-tuned volume resonator comprises a generally cylindrical birdcage comprising a pair of end rings and generally parallel column elements bridging the end rings at generally equal...
7109715 Generator of time-variable magnetic fields of a magnetic resonance device and magnetic resonance device  
A generator of time-variable magnetic fields of a magnetic resonance device having an examination space for registering at least one area to be examined of an item being examined has the following...
7109714 Q-factor switching method and apparatus for detecting nuclear quadrupole and nuclear magnetic resonance signals  
A probe ( 80 ) for irradiating a sample with RF energy during transmitting periods and detecting an NQR or NMR signal from a substance contained within the sample during receiving periods. The...
7109710 Method and apparatus to improve signal-to-noise ratio without compromising field-of-view for simultaneous MR data acquisition by an array of RF coils of an MR scanner  
A method and apparatus is disclosed to analogically combine MR signals from RF coils to form multiple sets of analogically combined MR signals, and then digitally combine the analogically combined...
7106061 Probe head for nuclear magnetic resonance measurements  
A probe head for nuclear magnetic resonance measurements is disclosed in which at least a first kind of nuclei with a first, higher resonance frequency and a second kind of nuclei with a second,...
7106064 Method and apparatus for quadrature detection and MRI system  
A method of eliminating unnecessary frequency components using a quadrature detector. The method includes converting an analog input signal into a digital signal f 1 (t), and the signal f 1 (t) is...
7098661 Magnetic resonance device with a high frequency shield having a high frequency short circuit to the circuits boundary surface of the basic field magnet  
A magnetic resonance device with a cavity and with a basic field magnet and a gradient coil system, with the basic field magnet having a cavity that is bounded by an electrically conductive...
7099808 Capacitance and transmission line measurements for an integrated circuit  
A method and apparatus for determining capacitance of wires in an integrated circuit is described. The capacitance information derived according to the invention can be used, for example, to...
7096056 Functional magnetic resonance imaging using steady state free precession  
A method for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) uses steady-state free precession (SSFP) to image changes in blood oxygenation between two time periods. A center frequency of the SSFP...
7095230 NMR probe for material analysis  
In a unilateral NMR probe for the analysis of a material comprising at least one magnet for generating a constant time-invariant polarization field B 0 in the material to be analyzed and current...
7091721 Phased array local coil for MRI imaging having non-overlapping regions of sensitivity  
A capacitor decoupling network allows the production of a multi-loop local coil for magnetic resonance imaging without overlap of the loops and/or with decoupling between both adjacent and...
7088104 MRI tunable antenna and system  
A strip array antenna including a number of conductors ( 14 ) that are connected to ground or virtual ground though at least one reactive component ( 150 ). The apparent electrical length of...
7084635 Probe for NMR apparatus using magnesium diboride  
To provide a probe coil for an NMR apparatus which can transmit and receive high frequency radio waves with improved Q-factor and S/N ratio. As a measure, the probe coil for an NMR apparatus is...
7084629 Parallel imaging compatible birdcage resonator  
A birdcage coil for use with a magnetic resonance (MR) system comprises a first ring at one thereof, a second ring at the other end thereof, and a plurality of rods electrically interconnecting the...
7081753 Multiple tuned scroll coil  
A sample probe and apparatus are provided for magnetic resonance experiments. The probe includes a coil simultaneously tunable to at least two different frequencies. The coil includes a section...
7068035 Magnetic resonance apparatus with a detunable RF resonator  
A magnetic resonance apparatus with a radio-frequency shield at a reference potential, a detuning circuit and an electrical line which is connected with the detuning circuit. The electrical line is...