The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JOSEPH V. HAJNAL, MARK BYDDER and DAVID J. LARKMAN
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Appeal No. 2005-0186
Application No. 10/126,217
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, HAIRSTON and BARRETT, Administrative Patent
Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 and 14 on appeal. Representative
claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising
means for exciting magnetic resonant (MR) active nuclei in a
region of interest, means for creating magnetic field
gradients in a phase-encode direction for spatially encoding
the excited MR active nuclei, the number of phase-encode
gradients producing a field of view corresponding to the
region of interest, an array of at least two r.f. receive
coils for receiving data from the region of interest, and
means for producing an image by combining signals from the
coils of the array, using the relative sensitivity of each
coil.
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