DR. STEVEN TURNER WRIGHT, MD
Medical Practice at Earl Rudder Fwy, College Station, TX

6771071, Aug 3, 2004

Nov 6, 2002

10/289522

Steven M. Wright - College Station TX
David Gerald Brown - College Station TX
Mary Preston McDougall - College Station TX

The Texas AM University System - College Station TX

G01V 300

324318, 324322, 600421

According to one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus for magnetic resonance imaging is provided. The apparatus includes a detection surface defined by a plurality of sensors. Each of the sensors is operable to receive image information concerning a particular portion of a target surface by substantially confining to the each of the sensors magnetic flux associated with the particular portion of the target surface. The detection surface is operable to acquire all image information for generating a magnetic resonance image resembling the target surface by receiving, at the each of the sensors, a single echo signal from the particular portion of the target surface that correspondingly underlies the each of the sensors. The magnetic resonance image has a resolution of at least sixty-four pixels by a number of pixels equal to M. M is an integer.

2013013, May 30, 2013

Nov 28, 2012

13/687863

Steven M. Wright - College Station TX, US

THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM - College Station TX

G01R 33/34

324322

Each of the coils in a transmit coil array of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is electrically connected to a common voltage point by a transmission line. By controlling the electrical length of the transmission line connecting each of the coils to the common voltage point to an odd integer multiple of one quarter wavelength, the current delivered to each coil is independent of coil impedance. This principle of forced current excitation enables equal currents to be delivered to each coil of a magnetic resonance imaging transmit coil array regardless of the unique loading of the individual coils and mutual impedance between the coils.

2009017, Jul 9, 2009

Jan 7, 2009

12/350075

Arum Han - College Station TX, US
Steven M. Wright - College Station TX, US

THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM - College Station TX

G01V 3/00, H01F 7/00

324318, 335296

The present invention includes an assembly with a magnet for magnetic resonance having a substrate with an imaging surface and an opening within the substrate adjacent the imaging surface. The present invention enhances the sensitivity and reduces the acquisition time of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy by cooling the coil using microfluidic channels through which a cryogenic fluid is pumped. Various embodiments have been detailed for clinical imaging or detection in which the integrated coil/microfluidic cryo-cooling system is outside the patient body or in vivo imaging or detection in which the integrated coil/microfluidic cryo-cooling system is inside the patient.

6982554, Jan 3, 2006

Apr 29, 2004

10/835363

Krishna Nagaraj Kurpad - Madison WI, US
Steven M. Wright - College Station TX, US
Eddy Benjamin Boskamp - Menomonee Falls WI, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

G01V 3/00

324318, 324319

An MRI system includes an array of series resonant transmit elements and including individual control of RF current in all elements The array and adjusts scan homogeneity during a scan or prescan phase by adjusting amplitude and phase. The array and also selectively excites areas of interest, thus avoiding major power dissipation and avoiding heating in the patient.