Patents by Inventor Balthasar Eberle

Balthasar Eberle 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).

  • Magnetic resonance imaging method
    Patent number: 6595211
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of detecting regional variations in oxygen uptake from the lungs of an air-breathing animal subject, said method comprising administering into the lungs of said subject a diagnostically effective amount of a gaseous hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging agent, detecting the magnetic resonance signal from said agent in said lungs, determining the temporal variation in relaxation rate for said signal for at least one region of interest within said lungs, and from said variation generating a qualitative or quantitative value or image indicative of the oxygen uptake from the alveolar space in said at least one region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Medi-Physics Inc.
    Inventors: Norbert Weiler, Balthasar Eberle, Wolfgang Schreiber, Klaus Markstaller, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Timothy P. L. Roberts, Werner Heil, Reinhard Surkau, Anselm Deninger, Lars Lauer, Tino Grossmann, Michael Ebert
  • Magnetic resonance imaging method
    Publication number: 20020043267
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of detecting regional variations in oxygen uptake from the lungs of an air-breathing animal subject, said method comprising administering into the lungs of said subject a diagnostically effective amount of a gaseous hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging agent, detecting the magnetic resonance signal from said agent in said lungs, determining the temporal variation in relaxation rate for said signal for at least one region of interest within said lungs, and from said variation generating a qualitative or quantitative value or image indicative of the oxygen uptake from the alveolar space in said at least one region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Medi-Physics Inc.
    Inventors: Norbert Weiler, Balthasar Eberle, Wolfgang Schreiber, Klaus Markstaller, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Timothy P.L. Roberts, Werner Heil, Reinhard Surkau, Anselm Deninger, Lars Lauer, Tino Grossmann, Michael Ebert
  • Magnetic resonance imaging method
    Patent number: 6370415
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of detecting regional variations in oxygen uptake from the lungs of an air-breathing animal subject, said method comprising administering into the lungs of said subject a diagnostically effective amount of a gaseous hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging agent, detecting the magnetic resonance signal from said agent in said lungs, determining the temporal variation in relaxation rate for said signal for at least one region of interest within said lungs, and from said variation generating a qualitative or quantitative value or image indicative of the oxygen uptake from the alveolar space in said at least one region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Medi-Physics Inc.
    Inventors: Norbert Weiler, Balthasar Eberle, Wolfgang Schreiber, Klaus Markstaller, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Timothy P. L. Roberts, Werner Heil, Reinhard Surkau, Anselm Deninger, Lars Lauer, Tino Grossmann, Michael Ebert