Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Udo Roffmann

Wolfgang Udo Roffmann 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: 6118274
    Abstract: An NMR probehead is proposed having a generally cylindrical casing extending along a probehead axis. The NMR probehead can be inserted into the room temperature bore of an NMR spectrometer magnet providing, in a measurement region, a homogeneous static magnetic field along the probehead axis. The NMR probehead comprises a cylindrical radio frequency (RF) resonator oriented along a resonator axis and generating essentially homogeneous RF magnetic fields transverse to the resonator axis. In accordance with the invention, the angle between the probehead axis and the resonator axis is different from 0.degree.. In this manner, the inclination of the resonator does not affect the useful RF magnetic field and the signal to noise ratio of the received NMR signal is independent of the inclination angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: University of Queensland
    Inventors: Wolfgang Udo Roffmann, Kurt Luescher, Stuart Crozier, David Michael Doddrell