Patents by Inventor Jean-Baptiste Mathieu
Jean-Baptiste Mathieu 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: 11269749Abstract: A system for monitoring a health status of a gradient coil disposed in a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The system includes one or more sensors and a controller. The one or more sensors are operative to obtain one or more parameter readings of the gradient coil, wherein the one or more parameter readings include at least one of an acoustic measurement and a back electromotive force measurement. The controller is in electronic communication with the one or more sensors and operative to generate the health status based on at least one of the acoustic measurement and the back electromotive force measurement.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Erman Citirik, Garrett Astary, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Derek Seeber, Namratha Reganti
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Patent number: 10877118Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to magnetic resonance imaging systems and, more specifically, to the manufacturing of a gradient coil assembly for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. For example, in one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a gradient coil assembly for a magnetic resonance imaging system includes depositing a first layer comprising a base material onto a surface to form a substrate and depositing a second layer onto the first layer. The second layer may enable bonding between a conductor material and the substrate. The method also includes depositing a third layer onto the second layer using a consolidation process. The consolidation process uses the conductor material to form at least a portion of a gradient coil.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Saban Kurucay, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Yanzhe Yang
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Patent number: 10488477Abstract: A gradient coil unit having a peripheral surface enclosing a magnetic gradient axis, and a middle plane substantially perpendicular to the magnetic gradient axis at a middle portion of the gradient coil unit, comprising at least one folded coil which comprises a first set of curved conductors disposed on a first curved surface; a second set of curved conductors disposed on a second curved surface outside the first curved surface and substantially overlapping the first set of curved conductors; and a set of connecting conductors connecting selected curved conductors in the first set with selected curved conductors in the second set; wherein the set of connecting conductors is located at a first side of the middle plane.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jian Lin, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Yihe Hua, Seung-Kyun Lee, Dominic Michael Graziani
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Publication number: 20190347177Abstract: A system for monitoring a health status of a gradient coil disposed in a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The system includes one or more sensors and a controller. The one or more sensors are operative to obtain one or more parameter readings of the gradient coil, wherein the one or more parameter readings include at least one of an acoustic measurement and a back electromotive force measurement. The controller is in electronic communication with the one or more sensors and operative to generate the health status based on at least one of the acoustic measurement and the back electromotive force measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: ERMAN CITIRIK, GARRETT ASTARY, JEAN-BAPTISTE MATHIEU, DEREK SEEBER, NAMRATHA REGANTI
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Patent number: 10281538Abstract: A warm bore cylinder assembly having an outer wall, an inner wall, and a plurality of braces is provided. The outer wall is configured to define an inner exterior portion of a cryostat assembly. The outer wall is generally cylindrical, is made of a conductive material, and has an outer wall thickness. The inner wall is disposed radially inwardly of the outer wall. The inner wall is generally cylindrical, is made of a conductive material, and has an inner wall thickness. The braces extend along an axial direction defined by the outer wall and the inner wall. The plurality of braces are interposed between and join the outer wall and inner wall. The plurality of braces define openings disposed between adjacent braces.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Kenneth William Rohling, Minfeng Xu, Seung-Kyun Lee
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Patent number: 10254362Abstract: A method for improving image quality in a magnetic resonance imaging system, the method includes rapidly modulating an electrical current in a matrix shim coil of the magnetic resonance imaging system to compensate high order eddy currents in the system.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Derek Allan Seeber, Seung-Kyun Lee
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Patent number: 10222436Abstract: A gradient coil comprises a curved conductor, which is tubular and has a general spiral shape. The curved conductor is formed by a process comprising depositing at least one non-conductive material layer by layer to form a substrate, and coating at least a portion of a surface of the substrate with a conductive material. The substrate has a shape matching with the general spiral shape of the curved conductor. Embodiments of the present disclosure further refer to a method for manufacturing the gradient coil.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Yanzhe Yang, Steven Robert Hayashi, Kevin Warner Flanagan, Prabhjot Singh, Jian Lin, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Kenneth Paul Zarnock, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo
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Patent number: 10126386Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) gradient coil assembly includes a substrate and first hollow conductor coil. The substrate has a surface. The first hollow conductor coil includes a first coiled portion and a first end run portion joined by a first eye lead portion. The first coiled portion defines a series of increasing radius loops disposed on the surface of the substrate, with an outer loop of the first coiled portion defining a coiled portion boundary. The first eye lead portion is disposed in a central portion of the first coiled portion. The first end run portion extends continuously from the first coiled portion via the first eye lead portion beyond the coiled portion boundary.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Derek Allan Seeber, David Glenn Lee, Eric George Budesheim, Timothy Elden Wise, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Charles Franklin Helms, Michael Dominic Graziani, Sung Man Moon, Justin Ricci, William Louis Einziger, Anthony Mantone, Hannah Leigh Aaronson
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Publication number: 20180156880Abstract: A gradient coil unit having a peripheral surface enclosing a magnetic gradient axis, and a middle plane substantially perpendicular to the magnetic gradient axis at a middle portion of the gradient coil unit, comprising at least one folded coil which comprises a first set of curved conductors disposed on a first curved surface; a second set of curved conductors disposed on a second curved surface outside the first curved surface and substantially overlapping the first set of curved conductors; and a set of connecting conductors connecting selected curved conductors in the first set with selected curved conductors in the second set; wherein the set of connecting conductors is located at a first side of the middle plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Jian Lin, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Yihe Hua, Seung-Kyun Lee, Dominic Michael Graziani
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Publication number: 20180100905Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to magnetic resonance imaging systems and, more specifically, to the manufacturing of a gradient coil assembly for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. For example, in one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a gradient coil assembly for a magnetic resonance imaging system includes depositing a first layer comprising a base material onto a surface to form a substrate and depositing a second layer onto the first layer. The second layer may enable bonding between a conductor material and the substrate. The method also includes depositing a third layer onto the second layer using a consolidation process. The consolidation process uses the conductor material to form at least a portion of a gradient coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Saban Kurucay, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Yanzhe Yang
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Patent number: 9869734Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to magnetic resonance imaging systems and, more specifically, to the manufacturing of a gradient coil assembly for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. For example, in one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a gradient coil assembly for a magnetic resonance imaging system includes depositing a first layer comprising a base material onto a surface to form a substrate and depositing a second layer onto the first layer. The second layer may enable bonding between a conductor material and the substrate. The method also includes depositing a third layer onto the second layer using a consolidation process. The consolidation process uses the conductor material to form at least a portion of a gradient coil.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Saban Kurucay, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Yanzhe Yang
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Publication number: 20170123026Abstract: A method for improving image quality in a magnetic resonance imaging system, the method includes rapidly modulating an electrical current in a matrix shim coil of the magnetic resonance imaging system to compensate high order eddy currents in the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: JEAN-BAPTISTE MATHIEU, DEREK ALLAN SEEBER, SEUNG-KYUN LEE
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Patent number: 9638776Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are utilized to improve shimming capability while reducing radial space and the volume required to contain active shim coils by nesting the coils of different degrees and orders inside each other and limiting the azimuthal span of the individual saddle coils. This allows two or more radial shim sets to be combined together in the same layer resulting in a significant radial savings that increases the useable portion of an MRI system.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Parizh, Derek Allan Seeber, Seung-Kyun Lee, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu
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Publication number: 20170059676Abstract: A gradient coil comprises a curved conductor, which is tubular and has a general spiral shape. The curved conductor is formed by a process comprising depositing at least one non-conductive material layer by layer to form a substrate, and coating at least a portion of a surface of the substrate with a conductive material. The substrate has a shape matching with the general spiral shape of the curved conductor. Embodiments of the present disclosure further refer to a method for manufacturing the gradient coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Yanzhe Yang, Steven Robert Hayashi, Kevin Warner Flanagan, Prabhjot Singh, Jian Lin, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Kenneth Paul Zarnock, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo
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Publication number: 20170003361Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) gradient coil assembly includes a substrate and first hollow conductor coil. The substrate has a surface. The first hollow conductor coil includes a first coiled portion and a first end run portion joined by a first eye lead portion. The first coiled portion defines a series of increasing radius loops disposed on the surface of the substrate, with an outer loop of the first coiled portion defining a coiled portion boundary. The first eye lead portion is disposed in a central portion of the first coiled portion. The first end run portion extends continuously from the first coiled portion via the first eye lead portion beyond the coiled portion boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Derek Allan Seeber, David Glenn Lee, Eric George Budesheim, Timothy Elden Wise, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Charles Franklin Helms, Michael Dominic Graziani, Sung Man Moon, Justin Ricci, William Louis Einziger, Anthony Mantone, Hannah Leigh Aaronson
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Patent number: 9355774Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to magnetic resonance imaging systems and, more specifically, to the manufacturing of a gradient coil assembly for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. For example, in one embodiment, a method includes ultrasonically consolidating a plurality of sheets of a conductive material to form a consolidated structure and machining one or more conductive channels into the consolidated structure to form an inductor.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Yanzhe Yang, Bruce Courtney Campbell Amm, Silke Maria Lechner-Greite
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Publication number: 20160054407Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are utilized to improve shimming capability while reducing radial space and the volume required to contain active shim coils by nesting the coils of different degrees and orders inside each other and limiting the azimuthal span of the individual saddle coils. This allows two or more radial shim sets to be combined together in the same layer resulting in a significant radial savings that increases the useable portion of an MRI system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Michael Parizh, Derek Allan Seeber, Seung-Kyun Lee, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu
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Patent number: 8948841Abstract: The present invention relates to a MR tracking method and device. More specifically, the present invention relates to a magnetic resonance tracking method and device, using a magnetic-susceptible object. A magnetic iso-surface induced by the object is selectively excited with a corresponding frequency offset; the magnetic iso-surface is then projected on three axes of a k-space, from which projections the spatial position of the object is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignees: Polyvalor, Limited Partnership, Val-Chum, Limited PartnershipInventors: Sylvain Martel, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Ouajdi Felfoul, Gilles Beaudoin
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Publication number: 20140302258Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to magnetic resonance imaging systems and, more specifically, to the manufacturing of a gradient coil assembly for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. For example, in one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a gradient coil assembly for a magnetic resonance imaging system includes depositing a first layer comprising a base material onto a surface to form a substrate and depositing a second layer onto the first layer. The second layer may enable bonding between a conductor material and the substrate. The method also includes depositing a third layer onto the second layer using a consolidation process. The consolidation process uses the conductor material to form at least a portion of a gradient coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2013Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Saban Kurucay, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Yanzhe Yang
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Publication number: 20140184222Abstract: A matrix shim coil apparatus includes a plurality of coils configured to provide high order shimming. Each coil has a figure eight shape and a first loop and a second loop. In another embodiment, each coil is further folded along an axis of the coil creating a folded coil with an upper portion and a lower portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Derek Allan Seeber, Bruce Amm, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu