Patents by Inventor Daniel N. Splitthoff

Daniel N. Splitthoff 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).

  • Sense shimming (SSH): a fast approach for determining B0 field inhomogeneities using sensitivity encoding
    Patent number: 8018230
    Abstract: The pursuit for ever higher field strengths and faster data acquisitions has led to the construction of coil arrays with high numbers of elements. With the SENSE technique it has been shown, how the sensitivity of those elements can be used for spatial image encoding. A method in accordance with the present invention, largely abstains from using encoding gradients. The resulting sensitivity encoded free induction decay (FID) data is then not used for imaging, but for determining field inhomogeneity distribution. The method has therefore been termed SSH for Sense SHimming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg
    Inventors: Maxim Zaitsev, Daniel N. Splitthoff, Jürgen Hennig
  • Sense Shimming (SSH): a fast approach for determining B0 field inhomogeneities using sensitivity encoding
    Publication number: 20100102819
    Abstract: The pursuit for ever higher field strengths and faster data acquisitions has led to the construction of coil arrays with high numbers of elements. With the SENSE technique it has been shown, how the sensitivity of those elements can be used for spatial image encoding. A method in accordance with the present invention, largely abstains from using encoding gradients. The resulting sensitivity encoded free induction decay (FID) data is then not used for imaging, but for determining field inhomogeneity distribution. The method has therefore been termed SSH for Sense SHimming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Maxim ZAITSEV, Daniel N. SPLITTHOFF, Jurgen HENNIG