Patents by Inventor Phillip Steen

Phillip Steen 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 and system to dynamically configure transmit receive coils to calibrate a magnetic resonance imaging system
    Publication number: 20060214661
    Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems including a coil system and methods for controlling the coil system are described. A described system includes a coil system for MRI. The coil system includes a local volume coil configured to transmit and receive MRI signals and an array of surface coils configured to receive MRI signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Phillip Steen, Ceylan Guclu, Tsinghua Zheng
  • Method and apparatus to improve signal-to-noise ratio without compromising field-of-view for simultaneous MR data acquisition by an array of RF coils of an MR scanner
    Publication number: 20050083055
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed to analogically combine MR signals from RF coils to form multiple sets of analogically combined MR signals, and then digitally combine the analogically combined sets of MR signals to provide a digitized signal set for image reconstruction. The analogical combining followed by the digital combining of acquired MR signals improves intrinsic SNR of the RF coils used for data acquisition from a field-of-view (FOV) without compromising FOV for simultaneous MR data acquisition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Dashen Chu, Ricardo Matias, Travis Monke, Phillip Steen, Fraser Robb