Patents by Inventor Rudolf G. De Graaf

Rudolf G. De Graaf 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).

  • Patent number: 4870361
    Abstract: An MR angiography method in which an angiogram is formed from the difference between amplitude and/or phase information contained in first and second complex images produced by different gradient waveforms in respective first and second types of excitation sequences. The gradient waveforms are chosen so that in the angiogram obtained from the first and second complex images, ideally, signals orginating from excited stationary spin nuclei are not present while the signals orginating from moving spin nuclei, due to flow in blood vessels, are present. However, stationary spin nuclei can be somewhat differently excited in the first and second sequence due to the different gradient waveforms used which cause different eddy currents to flow in metal parts of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Josephus J. E. In Den Kleef, Johannes P. Groen, Rudolf G. De Graaf