[Federal Register: August 29, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 168)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing
AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, HHS.
ACTION: Notice,
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SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned by agencies of the U.S.
Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance
with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results
of federally-funded research and development. Foreign patent
applications are filed on selected inventions to extend market coverage
for companies and may also be available for licensing.
ADDRESSES: Licensing information and copies of the U.S. patent
applications listed below may be obtained by contacting Dale D.
Berkley, Ph.D., J.D., at the Office of Technology Transfer, National
Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 325, Rockville,
Maryland 20852-3804; telephone: 301/496-7735 ext. 223; fax: 301/402-
0220; e-mail: berkleyd@od.nih.gov. A signed Confidential Disclosure
Agreement will be required to receive copies of the patent
applications.
Generalized MRI Artifact Reduction Using Array Processing Method
Peter Kellman, Elliott McVeigh (NHLBI)
DHHS Reference No. E-198-00/0 filed 03 Apr 2001
The invention is a phased array combining method for reducing
artifacts in Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging. The method uses a
constrained optimization that optimizes signal-to-noise subject to the
constraint of nulling ghost artifacts at known locations. The method is
effective in reducing or canceling artifacts that arise in a wide
variety of MR applications, including ghost artifacts from echo planar
imaging and Gradient Recalled Echo with Echo Train (FGRE-ET) imaging
used in cardiac or other rapid imaging applications. The strategy of
using phase encode acquisition orders with distortion that results in
ghosts, followed by applying this phased array ghost cancellation
method has a number of benefits, including reduced blur and geometric
distortion, reduced acquisition time (eliminating echo shifting), and
reduced sensitivity to flow.
E-Portals in Commerce (E-PIC)
Diana V. Mukitarian (OD)
DHHS Reference No. E-147-00/0
The invention is a consolidated database for storing and
maintaining vendor contact information and contract services that each
can offer. The purpose of the invention is to consolidate vendor
sources into one database, enabling vendors to easily add and update
their contact information, to provide a variety of search criteria for
providing sources for an organization's acquisitions, and to make such
a system user friendly and available to the organization
administrators. The system serves as a gateway for the business
community to gain access to the organization's contracts and allows the
organization to follow the acquisition cycle at every step. The
database is designed to serve as a center for all communication for any
service vendor seeking to do business with the organization. At any
time an administrator can visit the repository to look for approved
contractors and review their performance on past projects, with the
intention of seeking proposals for work via an automated process. For
more information, please direct your web browser to http://
sbo.od.nih.gov/epicfactsheet.pdf.
Dated: August 20, 2001.
Jack Spiegel,
Director, Division of Technology Development and Transfer, Office of
Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 01-21780 Filed 8-28-01; 8:45 am]
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