Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Kreibich

Wolfgang Kreibich 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: 7368912
    Abstract: An MRI configuration comprising an MRI phantom positioned in a volume under investigation, wherein the MRI phantom has a chamber disposed in a housing and filled with a liquid, in which a gas bubble forms, the liquid nuclei which have an NMR relaxation time T1 of between 100 ms and 20 s, is characterized in that the chamber the MRI phantom a main chamber and a partial chamber, the main chamber being delimited from the partial chamber such that the gas bubble can completely enter the partial chamber due to its buoyancy by changing the spatial orientation of the MRI phantom in the gravitation field, and remains in the partial chamber in a measurement orientation of the MRI phantom due to its buoyancy. This eliminates imaging artefacts despite the presence of a gas bubble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Bruker Biospin MRI GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kreibich
  • Publication number: 20070069725
    Abstract: An MRI configuration comprising a magnet system for generating a homogeneous magnetic field, a radio frequency (RF) system (105) for generating/detecting an RF field B1, and a gradient system (106) for temporarily superposing defined gradient fields on a magnetic field B0, and an MRI phantom (104) positioned in the volume under investigation, wherein the MRI phantom (104) comprises a chamber (1) disposed in a housing (2) and filled with a liquid, in which a gas bubble (3) forms, wherein the liquid contains nuclei which have an NMR relaxation time T1, of between 100 ms and 20 s, is characterized in that the chamber (1) of the MRI phantom (104) comprises a main chamber (4) and a partial chamber (5), wherein the main chamber (4) is delimited from the partial chamber (5) such that the gas bubble (3) can completely enter the partial chamber (5) due to its buoyancy by changing the spatial orientation of the MRI phantom (104) in the gravitation field, and remains in the partial chamber (5) in a measurement orientati
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kreibich