Patents by Inventor Glenn A. Reynolds

Glenn A. Reynolds 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).

  • Method to reduce eddy current effects in diffusion-weighted echo planar imaging
    Patent number: 5864233
    Abstract: An eddy current correction method is provided for use in an MR system disposed to generate difflusion-weighted echo planar images by employing a bipolar diffusion-weighting gradient as well as the nominal components in an echo planar imaging pulse sequence. The correction method comprises the steps of deriving eddy current parameters (i.e., amplitude and time constant) associated with each eddy-current-induced magnetic field component caused by the diffusion-weighting gradient, and generating a set of correction terms, each of the correction terms being a function of the parameters. The method includes the further steps of modifyg a set of ideal echo planar imaging gradients and the receiver phase and frequency to respectively offset the eddy current induced magnetic field gradient and the spatially independent B.sub.0 -magnetic field. The modification occurs in two stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Xiaohong Zhou, Joseph K. Maier, Hammond Glenn Reynolds
  • Two-handled cue stick
    Patent number: D290486
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Inventor: Glenn Reynolds