Patents by Inventor Ian Robert Young
Ian Robert Young has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11513178Abstract: The invention relates to an MRI apparatus and a method of MRI involving the acquisition of a first and a second MRI image with mutually different orientations between the BO magnetic field and the object to be investigated. For instance, when imaging structures such as a tendon, due to the magic angle effect, this results in a change in image contrast. According to the invention, a coregistration can be performed between the first and the second MRI image. Moreover, the orientation of a structure within the object can be determined on the basis of the different orientations and the image intensity in the first and the second MRI image. The invention further discloses an apparatus for carrying out the method and a method of shimming the BO magnetic field of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Imperial College of Science, Technology and MedicineInventors: Mihailo Ristic, John Vincent Mario McGinley, Ian Robert Young
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Publication number: 20200264254Abstract: The invention relates to an MRI apparatus and a method of MRI involving the acquisition of a first and a second MRI image with mutually different orientations between the BO magnetic field and the object to be investigated. For instance, when imaging structures such as a tendon, due to the magic angle effect, this results in a change in image contrast. According to the invention, a coregistration can be performed between the first and the second MRI image. Moreover, the orientation of a structure within the object can be determined on the basis of the different orientations and the image intensity in the first and the second MRI image. The invention further discloses an apparatus for carrying out the method and a method of shimming the BO magnetic field of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Mihailo Ristic, John Vincent Mario McGinley, Ian Robert Young
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Patent number: 10605884Abstract: The invention relates to an MRI apparatus and a method of MRI involving the acquisition of a first and a second MRI image with mutually different orientations between the BO magnetic field and the object to be investigated. For instance, when imaging structures such as a tendon, due to the magic angle effect, this results in a change in image contrast. According to the invention, a coregistration can be performed between the first and the second MRI image. Moreover, the orientation of a structure within the object can be determined on the basis of the different orientations and the image intensity in the first and the second MRI image. The invention further discloses an apparatus for carrying out the method and a method of shimming the BO magnetic field of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Imperial College of Science, Technology and MedicineInventors: Mihailo Ristic, John Vincent Mario McGinley, Ian Robert Young
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Publication number: 20170038451Abstract: The invention relates to an MRI apparatus and a method of MRI involving the acquisition of a first and a second MRI image with mutually different orientations between the BO magnetic field and the object to be investigated. For instance, when imaging structures such as a tendon, due to the magic angle effect, this results in a change in image contrast. According to the invention, a coregistration can be performed between the first and the second MRI image. Moreover, the orientation of a structure within the object can be determined on the basis of the different orientations and the image intensity in the first and the second MRI image. The invention further discloses an apparatus for carrying out the method and a method of shimming the BO magnetic field of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Mihailo Ristic, John Vincent Mario McGinley, Ian Robert Young
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Patent number: 9269484Abstract: An electromagnet comprising a ferromagnetic yoke which comprises a yoke. Mutually opposing first and second pole pieces are provided. The first pole piece is provided with a planar coil having a first side facing the yoke and a second side facing the yoke. A balancing member is arranged on the second side of the planar coil to counterbalance the attractive force between the planar coil and the yoke. The other pole piece may also be provided with a corresponding balancing member.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Emscan LimitedInventors: John Vincent Mario McGinley, Mihailo Ristic, Colin Bowden Besant, Ian Robert Young
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Patent number: 8947090Abstract: An electromagnet assembly comprises a first pair of substantially co-planar coils wound in opposite senses to each other. It further comprises a second pair of co-planar coils also wound in opposite senses to each other. The coil pairs are arranged substantially parallel to, and spaced apart from, each other. In use, the field shape and direction produced by the first coil pair are substantially mirrored by those produced by the second coil pair.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Emscan LimitedInventors: John Vincent Mario McGinley, Ian Robert Young
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Publication number: 20140218145Abstract: An electromagnet comprising a ferromagnetic yoke which comprises a yoke. Mutually opposing first and second pole pieces are provided. The first pole piece is provided with a planar coil having a first side facing the yoke and a second side facing the yoke. A balancing member is arranged on the second side of the planar coil to counterbalance the attractive force between the planar coil and the yoke. The other pole piece may also be provided with a corresponding balancing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Emscan LimitedInventors: John Vincent Mario McGinley, Mihailo Ristic, Colin Bowden Besant, Ian Robert Young
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Publication number: 20130023757Abstract: An interconnect for an RF detector coil comprises a substrate comprising strip of insulating material, a conducting layer formed on a first side of the substrate, and a ground layer formed on a second side of the substrate. At least one of the layers has a periodic pattern so that the conducting layer alternates along its length between capacitive regions which are opposite regions of the ground layer, and non-capacitive regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Richard Rodney Anthony Syms, Ian Robert Young, Muhammad Munir Ahmad
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Publication number: 20120146667Abstract: A resonant radiofrequency (RF) detector assembly comprising a substrate, a coil formed on a front surface of the substrate, and two capacitors, each capacitor having a front plate which is formed on the front surface of the substrate and a rear plate formed on a rear surface of the substrate, the two front plates each being electrically connected to a different end of the coil, and the two rear plates being electrically connected to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: Richard Rodney Anthony Syms, Simon Taylor-Robinson, Munir M. Ahmad, Ian Robert Young
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Publication number: 20100198051Abstract: An actuator comprises an input shaft (42), a turbine system (38) coupled to the input shaft, air inlet means (32, 34) arranged to direct air flowing through it towards the turbine system to rotate the input shaft, an output shaft (50), and a gearing system (48) connecting the input shaft (42) to the output shaft (50) so that the turbine system (38) can drive the output shaft (50) via the gearing system (48). The air inlet means defines two different flow paths for air whereby the output shaft (50) can be driven in both directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2007Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Michael Ulrich Lamperth, Ian Robert Young, Haytham Elhawary, Tsz Ho Tse
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Patent number: 7532008Abstract: A material having magnetic permeability at r.f. frequency, for example a microstructured magnetic material has a magnetic permeability of negative value but unity magnitude over a particular r.f. frequency range. The singularity in the flux pattern has the result that magnetic resonant disturbances in a plane C,E normal to the line C,D are focussed into a plane D,F also normal to the line C,D and vice versa. This is particularly applicable to magnetic resonance apparatus, since the material can be used to transfer the r.f. magnetic flux distribution in a target region in a patient, for example at C,E to D,F where the flux may be directly measured by receive coils. Equally, transmit coils may generate flux to be focussed into the target region by the material. Magnetic resonance apparatus may be constructed which does not require gradient coils, and r.f. hypothermia may be carried out in a focussed way, minimising damage to surrounding tissue.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2001Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Ericsson ABInventors: John Brian Pendry, Ian Robert Young, Michael Charles Keogh Wiltshire, Joseph Vilmos Hajnal, David James Larkman, David John Gilderdale
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Patent number: 7170363Abstract: Microstructure materials which can be tuned to a particular range of r.f. frequencies to display particular magnetic permeabilities have been proposed. A typical material is made of an array of capacitive elements e.g. spirals or rolls of conducting material on a non-conducting substrate. These materials can be used as a guide which is effective for the particular band of frequencies to which it is tuned. In one example, the rolls (2a to 2c) guide magnetic flux along ducts (1, 2, 3) while rolls (4a, 5a) guide magnetic flux along ducts (4, 5). Flux can thus be guided upwardly along duct (2), along ducts (4 and 5), and down ducts (1, 3), or vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2001Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Marconi UK Intellectual Property Ltd.Inventors: Michael Charles Keogh Wiltshire, Ian Robert Young
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Patent number: 6819106Abstract: In magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, an array of coils (7, 8, 9, 10) is used to receive magnetic resonance signals from a desired region of a patient. Screens 11 to 13 and 14 and 15 are provided between the coils and at the ends of the array of coils to control the sensitive region A of each coil but, in accordance with the invention, the screening properties of the screens is controllable so that for example the screens may be made inoperative beneath the plane of the array of coils so that each has the field of view B, in order to vary the properties produced by the array. Other uses of screens are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2003Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Inventors: Ian Robert Young, Michael Charles Keogh
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Patent number: 6768051Abstract: Microstructured materials which can be tuned to a particular range of r.f. frequencies to display particular magnetic permeabilities have been proposed. A typical material is made of an array of capacitive elements e.g. spirals or rolls of conducting material on a non-conducting substrate. These materials can be used as screening material which is effective for the particular band of frequencies to which it is tuned. In one example, the rolls 2 to 5 are orientated normal to the face of the screen 1, which reflects or absorbs the magnetic vector of electromagnetic radiation impinging normal onto the reflector face.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2003Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Marconi Optical Components LimitedInventors: Michael Charles Keogh Wiltshire, Ian Robert Young
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Publication number: 20030155919Abstract: A material having magnetic permeability at r.f. frequency, for example a microstructured magnetic material has a magnetic permeability of negative value but unity magnitude over a particular r.f. frequency range. The singularity in the flux pattern has the result that magnetic resonant disturbances in a plane C,E normal to the line C,D are focussed into a plane D,F also normal to the line C,D and vice versa. This is particularly applicable to magnetic resonance apparatus, since the material can be used to transfer the r.f. magnetic flux distribution in a target region in a patient, for example at C,E to D,F where the flux may be directly measured by receive coils. Equally, transmit coils may generate flux to be focussed into the target region by the material. Magnetic resonance apparatus may be constructed which does not require gradient coils, and r.f. hypothermia may be carried out in a focussed way, minimising damage to surrounding tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2003Publication date: August 21, 2003Inventors: John Brian Pendry, Ian Robert Young, Michael Charles Keogh Wiltshire, Joseph Vilmos Hajnal, David James Larkman, David John Gilderdale
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Publication number: 20030155918Abstract: In magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, an array of coils (7, 8, 9, 10) is used to receive magnetic resonance signals from a desired region of a patient. Screens 11 to 13 and 14 and 15 are provided between the coils and at the ends of the array of coils to control the sensitive region A of each coil but, in accordance with the invention, the screening properties of the screens is controllable so that for example the screens may be made inoperative beneath the plane of the array of coils so that each has the field of view B, in order to vary the properties produced by the array. Other uses of screens are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2003Publication date: August 21, 2003Inventors: Ian Robert Young, Michael Charles Keogh Wiltshire
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Publication number: 20030146801Abstract: Microstructure materials which can be tuned to a particular range of r.f. frequencies to display particular magnetic permeabilities have been proposed. A typical material is made of an array of capacitive elements e.g. spirals or rolls of conducting material on a non-conducting substrate. These materials can be used as a guide which is effective for the particular band of frequencies to which it is tuned. In one example, the rolls (2a to 2c) guide magnetic flux along ducts (1, 2, 3) while rolls (4a, 5a) guide magnetic flux along ducts (4, 5). Flux can thus be guided upwardly along duct (2), along ducts (4 and 5), and down ducts (1, 3), or vice versa.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Michael Charles Keogh Wiltshire, Ian Robert Young
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Publication number: 20030146802Abstract: Microstructured materials which can be tuned to a particular range of r.f. frequencies to display particular magnetic permeabilities have been proposed. A typical material is made of an array of capacitive elements e.g. spirals or rolls of conducting material on a non-conducting substrate. These materials can be used as screening material which is effective for the particular band of frequencies to which it is tuned. In one example, the rolls 2 to 5 are orientated normal to the face of the screen 1, which reflects or absorbs the magnetic vector of electromagnetic radiation impinging normal onto the reflector face.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Michael Charles Keogh Wiltshire, Ian Robert Young
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Patent number: 6529004Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus has a patient support (1) moveable on runners (2) along a beam (3) into a bore (4). The r.f. coil (7) is secured to the patient support so as to travel axially with the patient support when the patient enters the bore. The r.f. coil is also moveable laterally to enable off-centre as well as central regions of the patient to be imaged. The apparatus is particularly suited to continuous scan. The width of the central section of the coil (7) may also be variable in a lateral direction to accommodate patients of different size.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2000Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Ian Robert Young
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Patent number: 6441711Abstract: A high temperature superconductor (HTSC) 5 is magnetized between drive coils 1,2 forming poles of a magnet connected by an iron yoke 9 by relative movement of a vacuum insulated cryostat 4 containing the HTSC and the magnetizing magnet, in order to magnetize a large area of HTSC using a magnet with a small region 3 of magnetizing flux. Alternatively, the HTSC 5may be contained in an evacuated region of a cryostat containing the magnetizing magnet. An interconnecting chamber allows the HTSC to be moved between an operative region and a magnetizing region without substantial loss of vacuum.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2001Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: Picker International, Inc.Inventor: Ian Robert Young