Inventor · Fort Washington, MD, US

Allen N. Garroway

18Patents
14h-index
17Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 4, 1975 → Sep 12, 2003

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5206592A Detection of explosives by nuclear quadrupole resonance Physics 81 Expired
US5233300A Detection of explosive and narcotics by low power large sample volume nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) Physics 79 Expired
US4021726A Image formation using nuclear magnetic resonance Physics 64 Expired
US6054856A Magnetic resonance detection coil that is immune to environmental noise Physics 51 Expired
US5365171A Removing the effects of acoustic ringing and reducing temperature effects in the detection of explosives by NQR Physics 48 Expired
US5804967A Apparatus and method for generating short pulses for NMR and NQR processing Physics 43 Expired
US5608321A Method and apparatus for detecting target species having quadropolar muclei by stochastic nuclear quadrupole resonance Physics 34 Expired
US4345207A Method and apparatus for obtaining enhanced NMR signals Physics 30 Expired
US6104190A Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) method and apparatus for detecting a nitramine explosive Physics 27 Expired
US6777937B1 Nuclear quadrupole resonance method and apparatus Physics 26 Expired
US6420872B1 Probe for detecting a transient magnetic resonance signal, wherein the ratio of the Q of the probe to the Q of the resonance signal is relatively large Physics 22 Expired
US6900633B2 Substance detection by nuclear quardrupole resonance using at least two different excitation frequencies Physics 16 Expired
US6522135B2 Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) method and probe for generating RF magnetic fields in different directions to distinguish NQR from acoustic ringing induced in a sample Physics 15 Expired
US5227725A Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging with short gradient pulses Physics 14 Expired
US6411208B1 Method and apparatus for detecting a target material in a sample by pre-screening the sample for piezoelectric resonance Physics 13 Expired
USH1218H NMR imaging with varying spatial coupling General 8 Active
US6924644B2 Radiofrequency surface detection coil Physics 7 Expired
US5227724A Pulsed-gradient spin diffusion NMR method Physics 3 Expired

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