Inventor · Mentor, OH, US

Michael A. Morich

63Patents
20h-index
44Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: May 10, 1989 → Mar 28, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6479999B1 Efficiently shielded MRI gradient coil with discretely or continuously variable field of view Physics 51 Expired
US5296810A MRI self-shielded gradient coils Physics 46 Expired
US6538443B2 MRI gradient coil with variable field of view and apparatus and methods employing the same Physics 44 Expired
US5349297A Combined self shielded gradient coil and shimset Physics 40 Expired
US5585724A Magnetic resonance gradient coils with interstitial gap Physics 35 Expired
US6011394A Self-shielded gradient coil assembly and method of manufacturing the same Physics 34 Expired
US8334697B2 Split gradient coil and PET/MRI hybrid system using the same Physics 32 Active
US5550472A Combined radio frequency coil with integral magnetic field shim set Physics 32 Expired
US5289128A Superconducting gradient shield coils Physics 30 Expired
US5278504A Gradient coil with off center sweet spot for magnetic resonance imaging Physics 28 Expired
US5036282A Biplanar gradient coil for magnetic resonance imaging systems Physics 27 Expired
US6169401A Flexible open quadrature highpass ladder structure RF surface coil in magnetic resonance imaging Physics 26 Expired
US8525116B2 MR/PET imaging systems Physics 26 Active
US5424643A Magnetic resonance gradient sheet coils Physics 25 Expired
US8378677B2 Thermally stabilized pet detector for hybrid PET-MR system Physics 24 Active
US5675305A Multiple driven C magnet Physics 23 Expired
US5280247A Filamentary cold shield for superconducting magnets Physics 23 Expired
US6211677A Lung coil for imaging hyper-polarized gas in an MRI scanner Physics 21 Expired
US5689189A Technique for designing distributed radio frequency coils and distributed radio frequency coils designed thereby Physics 21 Expired
US5406204A Integrated MRI gradient coil and RF screen Physics 21 Expired
US4928063A Automatic eddy current correction Physics 20 Expired
US6441615B1 Crossed-ladder RF coils for vertical field MRI systems Physics 18 Expired
US6023167A Surface coils with integrated shims Physics 18 Expired
US8089281B2 Doubly resonant high field radio frequency surface coils for magnetic resonance Physics 18 Active
US5177441A Elliptical cross section gradient oil Physics 15 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.