Abstract:
The amplifier device serves the purpose of broadband amplification of an electric input signal fed from a signal source. It has an amplifier input for feeding the input signal, and a broadband amplifier element. Provided for the purpose of compensating a source reactance active at a source output is an amplifier reactance which is active at the amplifier input and is determined by an input impedance of a current-reversing negative impedance converter. The useful bandwidth for the input signal is raised thereby.
Abstract:
An electrical conductor arrangement has conductor meshes that are arranged in areas with limiting lines defined by a network structure, and into which control devices are connected for the control of currents within the conductor arrangement.
Abstract:
A duplexer for an ultrasound imaging system is capable of selectively coupling a transducer element to either a transmitter or a receiver, depending on whether the imaging system is in the transmit mode or receive mode. The duplexer contains a field-effect transistor whose source and drain are connected between the transducer element and the receiver. The gate of the field effect transistor may either be driven with a control voltage or short-circuited to the source. In this manner, one obtains an improved duplexer that operates with virtually no power loss, without drive circuits, without leakage currents, and with low noise.
Abstract:
An impedance transformation comprising a plurality of elementary tranformers which can be used as impedance converters for radio frequency antennas of a nuclear magnetic resonant tomograph system. At least one combination of a parallel circuit and a series circuit using inner conductors and the outer conductors exists at the primary side of the transformer and at the secondary side of the elementary transformers. Nearly all arbitrary transformation ratios can be obtained with the line transformers of the invention.
Abstract:
For operating the radio-frequency antenna of a nuclear magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, the antenna being connected to an asymmetrical line, a sheath wave trap is provided between the antenna and the line, with the inductor of the sheath wave trap being a toroid. A low-scatter sheath wave trap is obtained in this manner, particularly suitable for circularly polarized resonators. The trap suppresses difference currents caused by asymmetries, and thus simultaneously functions as a balanced-to-unbalanced transformer (balun).
Abstract:
A surface resonator for use in nuclear magnetic resonance tomography is a single turn loop of ribbon-like electrical conductor having spaced ends facing each other which form a capacitor whose capacitance determines the resonant frequency. The loop of ribbon-like conductor is shaped to conform substantially to the generated surface of a truncated cone. The ends of the loop may be in the form of spaced plates for providing the necessary capacitance, or may be connected by one or more discrete component capacitors.
Abstract:
A device for reading out two-dimensional charge patterns contains a receiver matrix (consisting of elementary transducers arranged in rows and columns) and a switching matrix (consisting of a carrier plate and electronic components in chip form) which are arranged on the long side of the carrier plate which faces away from the receiver matrix. A switchable amplifier in chip form is assigned to each of the elementary transducers connecting lines of at least approximately the same length are provided between contact lips and the corresponding switchable amplifiers, and signal output lines and ground lines run parallel to one another, while control lines run perpendicular to them. This design of the switching matrix makes the device unusually simple in its construction, with the amplifiers that are arranged on the long side of the carrier plate, which faces away from the receiver matrix, always being accessible, even after the device has been assembled. Thus, when individual image points drop out, the corresponding amplifiers can be replaced quickly and easily.