Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Generator of a modulated radiofrequency signal, method for calibrating the generator, and magnetic resonance imaging system
- Patent Title (中): 调制射频信号发生器,校准发生器的方法和磁共振成像系统
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Application No.: US13381363Application Date: 2010-06-30
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Publication No.: US08830008B2Publication Date: 2014-09-09
- Inventor: Bernard Darges
- Applicant: Bernard Darges
- Applicant Address: FR Neuilly sur Seine
- Assignee: Thales
- Current Assignee: Thales
- Current Assignee Address: FR Neuilly sur Seine
- Agency: Baker Hostetler LLP
- Priority: FR0903192 20090630
- International Application: PCT/EP2010/059306 WO 20100630
- International Announcement: WO2011/000882 WO 20110106
- Main IPC: H03C3/38
- IPC: H03C3/38 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F3/217 ; G01R33/565 ; G01R33/58 ; G01R33/36

Abstract:
A generator of a high-power modulated signal, a method for calibrating the generator, and a magnetic resonance imaging system. The generator includes means for generating a sinewave signal phase-shifted by a first variable value relative to a phase reference and a sinewave signal phase-shifted by a given fixed value added to a second variable value relative to the phase reference, the second variable value opposite to the first variable value relative to the phase reference, the variable values representative of the modulation of the radiofrequency signal, the two sinewave signals being of constant amplitude, two amplifiers each amplifying one of the sinewave signals in a congested regime, and a fixed phase shifter with a value equal to the given value of the means to generate the two sinewave signals, the fixed phase shifter coupling the signals originating from the two amplifiers to deliver the modulated radiofrequency signal.
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