Patents by Inventor Carl Ganter

Carl Ganter 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).

  • Patent number: 7262599
    Abstract: The invention relates to the obtainment of magnetic resonance measurement data for the reproduction of an image of an object volume, illustrating the contrast between volume elements (voxels) which differ from one another in the parameter vectors Pi of the magnetic resonance property of the respective inherent substance i. The object volume which is to be imaged is subjected within a stationary magnetic field to a sequence of repetitive blocks of effects, each containing an RF-pulse with a flip angle ?<90° and magnetic field gradients, in order to obtain in each block N?1 location-coded measurement signals and to achieve sufficient intravoxel dephasing, wherein the phase ?(k) of the RF-pulse is changed from block to block in accordance with the rule ?k??k-1=?+k*?, where k is the running index of the blocks within the sequence and ? is a randomly selected phase angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Inventor: Carl Ganter
  • Publication number: 20070080687
    Abstract: The invention relates to the obtainment of magnetic resonance measurement data for the reproduction of an image of an object volume, illustrating the contrast between volume elements (voxels) which differ from one another in the parameter vectors Pi of the magnetic resonance property of the respective inherent substance i. The object volume which is to be imaged is subjected within a stationary magnetic field to a sequence of repetitive blocks of effects, each containing an RF-pulse with a flip angle ?<90° and magnetic field gradients, in order to obtain in each block N?1 location-coded measurement signals and to achieve sufficient intravoxel dephasing, wherein the phase ?(k) of the RF-pulse is changed from block to block in accordance with the rule ?k??k-1=?+k*?, where k is the running index of the blocks within the sequence and 100 is a randomly selected phase angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Inventor: Carl Ganter