Appeal No. 2000-1325
Application No. 08/842,758
(a) exciting the object at a location with radiation having a
plurality of different phase encodings to produce M phase-encoded
signals of an excited profile of the object;
(b) repeating step (a) at each of n locations;
(c) applying a discrete Fourier transform of n slices to produce
a K-space signal of the imaged object which is shifted by the
amount of applied phase encoding multiplied by the sampled
spectrum of the excitation profile, and
(d) generating an image from said K-space signal.
Claims 1, 2, 4-8 and 10-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph, as containing subject matter which was
not described in the specification in such a way as to enable one
skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most
nearly connected, to make and/or use the invention.
The respective positions of the examiner and the appellants
with regard to the propriety of these rejections are set forth in
the final rejection and the examiner’s answer (Paper Nos. 12 and
24, respectively) and the appellants’ brief and reply brief
(Paper Nos. 19 and 21, respectively). The answer incorporates
the examiner’s statement of the grounds of rejection by reference
to the final rejection.
Appellants’ Invention
The invention is described at pages 6-8 of the brief.
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