Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging method comprising a step for applying one or more gradient magnetic field pulses continuously, a step for calculating a residual magnetic field being generated from a magnet by an gradient magnetic field pulse based on a residual magnetic field response function representing the relation between the strength of the gradient magnetic field pulse being applied and the strength of a residual magnetic field being generated, and a step for correcting the residual magnetic field thus calculated. The magnetic resonance imaging method is further provided with a step for updating the residual magnetic field response function with time depending on the application history of the gradient magnetic field pulses being applied continuously.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging method comprising a step for applying one or more gradient magnetic field pulses continuously, a step for calculating a residual magnetic field being generated from a magnet by an gradient magnetic field pulse based on a residual magnetic field response function representing the relation between the strength of the gradient magnetic field pulse being applied and the strength of a residual magnetic field being generated, and a step for correcting the residual magnetic field thus calculated. The magnetic resonance imaging method is further provided with a step for updating the residual magnetic field response function with time depending on the application history of the gradient magnetic field pulses being applied continuously.

Abstract: A golf club shaft (10), tubular and having a hollow portion, which includes a laminate of fiber reinforced prepregs (21 through 23, 24A, 25 through 29). The laminate has a first part (I) composed of a plurality of first prepregs (P1) and a second part (P2). A loss factor (tan ?) of the first part (I) is set to not less than 0.005 nor more than 0.02, when the loss factor is measured at a frequency of 10 Hz under a condition of 10° C. A loss factor (tan ?) of the second part (P2) is set to not less than 0.10 nor more than 0.50, when the loss factor is measured at a frequency of 10 Hz under the condition of 10° C.

Abstract: Each point obtained by plotting flexural rigidity EI measured at ten sites on a shaft is defined as from T(1) to T(10) in this order from the head side, and the formula representing a line K that passes the T(1) and the T(10) is [Y=aX+b1]. The values at the Y-intercepts on the lines that are parallel to the line K and that pass the points of from T(2) to T(9), respectively, are defined as from b2 to b9, respectively, and the minimum value among the values at the Y-intercept b2 to b9 is defined as bmin. In this shaft, slope “a” of the line K is 0.04 or greater and 0.06 or less; any one of the b3, b4, b5, b6, b7 and b8 is smaller than b1; and the bmin is any one of b4 to b7. The value (b1?bmin) is 24 (N·m2) or greater and 35 (N·m2) or less, and the value (b9?b1) is 0 or greater and 10 (N·m2) or less. This shaft achieves excellent flight distance performance and directionality of the hit ball.

Abstract: A MRI apparatus includes a super-conducting magnet including a superconducting coil circuit having a super-conducting coil and a permanent current switch for controlling permanent current flowing through the super-conducting coil; at least one electrical circuit which is electrically connected to at least one electrical element and disposed at the outside of the super-conducting magnet; a gradient magnetic filed generating means; a high frequency magnetic field generating means; and shielded examination room which accommodates the super-conducting magnet. The apparatus further comprises means for interrupting noise current generated based on tomographic image measurement of the subject. Said means is disposed outside the super-conducting magnet and inside the shielded examination room while being inserted between the electrical circuit and the super-conducting magnet.

Abstract: A golf club shaft having at least six full-length layers composed of prepregs. The full-length layers are divided into an inner-layer part including a half of the full-length layers and an outer-layer part including a remaining half of the full-length layers. At least one pair of the full-length layers is formed as a bias set layer in each of the inner-layer part and the outer-layer part by layering two bias layers with each other, with reinforcing fibers of the bias layers intersecting with each other at an orientation angle of ±?° which fall in a range from ±25° to ±65° with respect to an axis of the golf club shaft. A straight layer is formed as an outermost full-length layer of the outer-layer part with reinforcing fiber thereof orienting at the range from 0° to ±10° with respect to the axis of the shaft.

Abstract: A tennis racket having a racket frame defining a ball-hitting face, wherein if the upper part of the ball-hitting face is set as a 0-degree position, a string protection member is mounted on at least one portion of a head part of the racket frame in a range from a clockwise 45-degree position to a clockwise 135-degree position and in a range from a clockwise 225-degree position to a clockwise 315-degree position by interposing a viscoelastic member between the string protection member and the racket frame. The moment (Is) of inertia of the tennis racket in a swing direction is set to not less than 450,000 g/cm2 nor more than 490,000 g/cm2, when strings are not tensionally mounted thereon. The moment (Ic) of inertia of the tennis racket in a center direction is set to not less than 15,000 g/cm2 nor more than 19,000 g/cm2, when the strings are not tensionally mounted thereon.

Abstract: A racket frame including a grip part, a shaft part, a throat part, and a head part formed hollowly with a fiber reinforced resin and having a weight not less than 100 g nor more than 270 g. The racket frame is provided with a dynamic damper comprising a mass member and a viscoelastic member mounted on a part of a peripheral surface of the mass member. The dynamic damper is mounted inside the grip part by fixing the viscoelastic member to a position of an inner wall of the grip part located within a range of 0.2 L from a free end of the grip part, supposing that a whole length of the racket frame is L in such a way that inside the grip part, at least one part of the mass member is shakable with respect to the inner wall of the grip part.

Abstract: In diffusion weighted imaging, motion monitoring navigation echoes are measured at every measurement of data after applying an RF excitation pulse, and one of them is set as a reference navigation echo. The reference navigation echo and other navigation echoes are one-dimensionally Fourier-transformed, a linear phase gradient thereof is calculated from those data, a linear phase gradient of the reference navigation echo is compared with those of other navigation echoes, and it is judged whether a difference therebetween is within an acceptable value or not. An echo signal corresponding to a navigation echo having the above difference being larger than the acceptable value is judged that correction based on the navigated motion correction is not applicable therein, and the image is produced by using an echo signal measured along with a navigation echo having the difference being the acceptable value or less.

Abstract: A golf club grip includes: a grip body including a grip cylinder portion and a grip end portion disposed at one end of the grip cylinder portion and formed with a through-hole for communicating a grip interior with the outside; and a vibration absorption member formed from a viscoelastic material and formed separately from the grip body. The vibration absorption member is removably attached to the grip body. The vibration absorption member includes: a plane portion and a bar-like portion formed integrally with the plane portion. The bar-like portion extends through the through-hole of the grip end portion as projecting inwardly of the grip cylinder portion.

Abstract: An MRI apparatus having a calibration pulse sequence, wherein a group of pulse sequences for applying test gradient magnetic fields are established from a basic pulse sequence by a gradient echo method of short TR, a group of pulse sequences not applying test gradient fields are established from the basic pulse sequence, a set of three- or four-dimensional data including a time variable is created by using echo signals collected by at least one of the groups, two data sets are created as a whole by inverting the polarity of the test gradient magnetic field, the difference between phase images thereof is determined, the magnitude and time constant of eddy current induced at the fall or rise of the gradient magnetic field are determined from the phase difference image, and the variation of the magnetic field due to eddy current induced at the rise and/or fall of the gradient magnetic field can be measured in a relatively short time with a desired time resolution even if the magnetic field variation is of a very

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic resonance imaging system capable of performing spectrum measurement even when a magnetic resonant frequency changes during MRS measurement. A time-varying rate of a water magnetic resonant frequency is measured in advance before the MRS measurement. The amount of change in water magnetic resonant frequency during the MRS measurement is predicted from the measured time-varying rate. With the predicted value as the reference, a transmission frequency of an RF magnetic field irradiated in a signal suppression pulse sequence, a transmission frequency of an RF magnetic field for excitation and inversion and a received frequency at the detection of a magnetic resonance signal in a sequence of the MRS measurement are respectively set. A high-precision spectrum measurement is hence enabled.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging method comprising a step for applying one or more gradient magnetic field pulses continuously, a step for calculating a residual magnetic field being generated from a magnet by an gradient magnetic field pulse based on a residual magnetic field response function representing the relation between the strength of the gradient magnetic field pulse being applied and the strength of a residual magnetic field being generated, and a step for correcting the residual magnetic field thus calculated. The magnetic resonance imaging method is further provided with a step for updating the residual magnetic field response function with time depending on the application history of the gradient magnetic field pulses being applied continuously.

Abstract: Liquid crystalline compounds having a large negative ?? low viscosity, a large K33/K11 value, a small ??/?? and mutually excellent solubility even at low temperature, compositions containing at least one of the compounds and liquid crystal display devices containing such a liquid crystal compositions are disclosed.

Abstract: A tennis racket frame (10), including a sleeve composed of a fiber reinforced resin, having a weight not less than 180 g nor more than 270 g, when strings are not mounted in a ball-hitting face thereof surrounded with a head part thereof. Supposing that the strings are not mounted in the ball-hitting face, a secondary natural frequency (F1) of the racket frame in an in-plane direction thereof is set to not less than 200 Hz nor more than 320 Hz, a secondary natural frequency (F2) thereof in an out-of-plane direction thereof is set to not less than 480 Hz nor more than 650 Hz, and F1/F2 is set to not less than 0.3 nor more than 0.6.

Abstract: An acousto optic element comprises optically transparent acousto optic medium having light incoming plane, light outgoing plane facing light incoming plane, transducer joining plane, and inclined plane tilted to transducer joining plane and piezoelectric transducer on which two opposing planes i.e., electrode layers and are formed and the transducer is connected to transducer joining plane of acousto optic medium through one of the electrode layers, wherein a deposited layer or a coating layer is formed on at least one of ultrasonic transducer or the acousto optic medium, the layer preventing ultrasonic waves generated by oscillation of ultrasonic transducer leaking onto acousto optic medium as a leakage-ultrasonic wave and propagating there, thus obtaining a high light-fading ratio.

Abstract: An MRI apparatus suitable for realizing selective excitation utilizing multiple RF transmitting coils (parallel transmission) is provided. This MRI apparatus is provided with, as an RF receiving coil or RF transmitting coil, an RF transmitting coil 104 comprising a loop coil 210, primary differential coil 220 and secondary differential coil 230 having a common central axis 201. Upon imaging, the coils 210, 220 and 230 constituting the RF transmitting coil 104 are simultaneously driven by RF signals with the same phase, and only the differential coils 220 and 230 are driven in the second half of irradiation time with phases different by 180° from the phases for the first half.

Abstract: An MRI apparatus having an open structure includes a static magnetic field generating magnet including magnetic field generating sources arranged above and below an imaging space and magnetic field fluctuation reducing plates arranged inside the magnet. Gradient magnetic field coils are fixed to the static magnetic field generating magnet so as to not be in contact with the magnetic field fluctuation reducing plates. When the strength of the magnetic field generated by the static magnetic field generating magnet fluctuates due to vibration of the gradient magnetic field coils or other devices during an imaging operation of the MRI apparatus, an eddy current is generated on the magnetic field fluctuation reducing plates in response to the magnetic field fluctuation components. Magnetic flux which cancels the static magnetic field fluctuation components is generated due to this eddy current, and consequently, a time-sequentially stable static magnetic field can be obtained.

Abstract: A method for transferring a thin plate is provided, in which three or more grasping claws of a transfer arm grasp the periphery of the thin plate in order to transfer it to a predetermined transfer position, and three or more holding claws hold the periphery of the thin plate in the transfer position. The transfer arm rotates about a shaft which is in a direction of a vector sum of a first vector perpendicular to a surface of the thin plate before transfer, and a second vector perpendicular to the surface of the thin plate after the transfer, to transfer the thin plate with changing the posture thereof.

Abstract: A rotation position detecting device includes an angular signal generator which generates pulses the cycle period of which is even or equal when a rotating object rotates at a constant rotation speed and a non-pulse portion which corresponds to a reference position, an up-down command circuit for generating an up-down command signal the frequency of which is divided to a half of the frequency of the angular signal, a pair of first counters for counting up or down the clock signal when the up-down command signal changes from a first level to a second level to reset and subsequently counting down the clock signal when the up-down command signal changes from the second level to the first level, a pair of processing circuits for providing a first and second reference values, a pair of counters which generates detection signals when the counted number of the counters becomes smaller than the first or the second reference value.