| Development and Commercialization of A Novel MRI RF receiving network transformer for parallel imaging |
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Institute : National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
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| Description of Technology/Invention :
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The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) Collaborator to work with NINDS in the development, manufacture and commercialization of Magnetic Resonance (MR) RF Coil array that greatly increases the signal to noise ratio in MR imaging by inductively decoupling the RF coils from one another.
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| Potential Areas of Application : |
● MR imaging of humans, including imaging of brain
● MR imaging of animals, including the brain of small rodents such as mice or rats
● Functional imaging of Humans and animals
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| Main Advantages of Technology/Invention
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● Allows for increased flexibility of coil design including geometries that require array with overlapping receiver coil loops.
● Can provide high level of mutual inductance decoupling within coils in the array.
● Isolates the grounds from coil to coil, and cancels all ground loops related to the coil array.
● Greatly increases the signal to noise ratio in MR imaging
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| Current State of Development : |
| Early stage; Working model made and tested, improved model for animals under testing. |
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| Patent Status : |
| U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/789,934 filed March 30, 2006 |
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| Contact Information : |
| Martha T. Lubet Ph.D., NIH Technology Transfer Office |
| Phone: 301 435-3120 |
Email: lubetm@mail.nih.gov
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| Last Updated: 7/25/2006 |
