Patents by Inventor Michele Ogle

Michele Ogle 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).

  • Conduction cooled passively-shielded MRI magnet
    Publication number: 20050001621
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device for imaging a volume is provided with at least one main magnet for generating a magnetic field, and at least one gradient coil for manipulating the magnetic field generated by the at least one main magnet to image the volume. The magnetic fields generated by the at least one gradient coil are substantially unshielded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Evangelos Laskaris, Xianrui Huang, Michele Ogle
  • Unified shimming for magnetic resonance superconducting magnets
    Patent number: 6181137
    Abstract: A method for shimming a magnetic resonance imaging magnet requiring higher magnetic field homogneity on a small imaging volume and by magnetic field measurements on a larger volume providing small measurement error and practical field strength measurements and utilizing the spherical harmonic coefficients of the measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy John Havens, Xianrui Huang, Robert Sethfield Smith, Steven Ho-Chong Wong, Michele Ogle, Bu-Xin Xu, Minfeng Xu