Global Patent Index - EP 1716429 A1

EP 1716429 A1 20061102 - IMAGING METHOD BASED ON FRACTAL SURFACE-FILLING OR SPACE-FILLING CURVES

Title (en)

IMAGING METHOD BASED ON FRACTAL SURFACE-FILLING OR SPACE-FILLING CURVES

Title (de)

BILDGEBUNGSVERFAHREN BASIEREND AUF SELBSTÄHNLICHEN FLÄCHEN - ODER RAUMFÜLLENDEN KURVEN

Title (fr)

PROCEDE D'IMAGERIE BASE SUR DES COURBES FRACTALES DE REMPLISSAGE DE SURFACES OU D'ESPACES

Publication

EP 1716429 A1 20061102 (DE)

Application

EP 04804915 A 20041217

Priority

  • EP 2004053572 W 20041217
  • DE 102004005005 A 20040130

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2005073748A1] The invention concerns an imaging method for use in nuclear magnetic resonance during which a constant static magnetic field acts upon a sample. An additional field is superimposed upon this static magnetic field. This additional field has, in at least one grating surface inside the sample volume, different field strength values at each point of the grating surface. The sample is excited by a high-frequency, electromagnetic alternating field, and the electromagnetic radiation radiated from the excited sample is extracted and evaluated for generating images. The invention also concerns an NMR imaging method during which the signal is extracted along a fractal, space-filling trajectory described by a Hilbert curve.

IPC 8 full level

G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01); G01R 33/561 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G01R 33/445 (2013.01 - EP US); G01R 33/48 (2013.01 - EP US); G01R 33/4822 (2013.01 - EP US); G01R 33/5615 (2013.01 - EP US); G01R 33/4806 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 2005073748A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2005073748 A1 20050811; DE 102004005005 A1 20050908; DE 102004005005 B4 20071122; EP 1716429 A1 20061102; JP 2007519452 A 20070719; US 2008231268 A1 20080925; US 7557574 B2 20090707

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 2004053572 W 20041217; DE 102004005005 A 20040130; EP 04804915 A 20041217; JP 2006549945 A 20041217; US 58608304 A 20041217