Portable nmr apparatus and systems and methods for analyzing nmr data obtained therefrom
OwnerRahner Jamesinventor
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Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein provide NMR systems and methods that use a portable, battery-powered, and robust NMR sensor apparatus to obtain NMR data of a sample, algorithms for evaluating the NMR data, and a user interface that presents specific, focused results of the NMR data analysis. The NMR systems and methods can be used to identify various physiological, chemical and health conditions in human, animals, plants and other biological materials. In addition, the NMR systems and method can also be used to identify chemicals, compounds, and elements in inorganic matter or non-biological substances.
Claims17
A portable and battery powered nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) apparatus, comprising:
- a housing configured to receive a sample vessel, the housing comprising:
- a magnetic assembly comprising an open cylindrical hole positioned in a center axis of the magnetic assembly;
- an antenna assembly comprising two antenna directors that extend into the open cylindrical hole and are configured to receive the sample vessel, wherein the two antenna directors collectively form two halves of a hollow columnar antenna array with a gap existing between each half of the array and which have a center axis that is substantially co-aligned with the center axis of the magnetic assembly, wherein when the sample vessel is inserted into the housing, the sample vessel is positioned within the hollow columnar antenna array and the open cylindrical hole;
- transmitter circuitry operative to radiate an electromagnetic (EM) signal, via the antenna assembly, to a sample contained in the sample vessel;
- receiver circuitry operative to receive, via the antenna assembly, re-radiated EM energy emanating from the sample as NMR data;
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- control circuitry operative to store a digital version of the NMR data in memory.
A method for processing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data of a sample, the method implemented in a computer device, the method comprising:
- receiving digital NMR data from a portable NMR apparatus;
- transforming the digital NMR data to transformed NMR data;
- processing the transformed NMR data through a data analysis engine in accordance with a template that focuses analysis of the transformed NMR data to a template specific target existing in the sample;
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- displaying results of the processing in accordance with a display descriptor associated with the template.
A system comprising:
- a portable and battery powered nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) apparatus configured to receive a sample vessel, irradiate a sample contained in the sample vessel with electromagnetic (EM) energy, capture re-radiated EM energy emanating from the sample as NMR data, store the NMR data in memory, and transmit the NMR data stored in the memory;
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- an application operating on a device communicatively coupled to receive the transmitted NMR data from the portable and battery powered NMR apparatus and configured to transform the NMR data to transformed NMR data, analyze the transformed NMR data in accordance with at least one template and display analysis results thereof, wherein each template defines how a correlation engine evaluates the transformed NMR data to assess whether a template target exists in the sample.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.