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Re: Separate system unacceptable (Letters, May 30). Bradley Walker should read up on his history before criticizing a system that aboriginals need. It's obvious the system we have in place now is not working. Never has. But we still use it.
Please, Mr. Walker, tell me where the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was in the 1840s when the first residential school was opened to assimilate aboriginals. Where was it in 1857 when a male aboriginal would lose his First Nations rights if he learned how to read and write English, and in 1872 when Indians were declared "non-persons"?
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It was not until the late 1950s that aboriginals could vote. In the '60s, native children were taken away to get the "Indian" out of them. Aboriginals were jailed if they were caught in Winnipeg without their treaty card.
Remember, the last residential school did not close until 1996. All of these things were done to them, yet we wonder why they are in jail. A separate justice based on race, you say? Seems to me it only applied to one race back then.
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Raven Lenore's client, Mordecai Wilsey, a mortician wants her to find a corpse stolen from his mortuary. When Raven she calls upon the missing corpse's best friend, Peter Morgan, he talks about a vampire named Celia and that he saw the dead man alive and walking about. Raven sets up a surveillance of the mortuary and catches Celia VanGrimm drinking blood drained from a corpse. Raven is caught in the middle of a maelstrom of walking corpses, The Beast, underground Chicago and bloody murder.
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Raven awoke with a start. "Damn. I shouldn't have fallen asleep." She checked her watch. It was after midnight.
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A chill went up Raven's spine. Funeral homes gave her the creeps. Although she often had to deal with them, she never liked corpses. Nonetheless, she mounted the porch steps. One window had a broken pane and was open. She crawled in as the burglar probably had and played her penlight around. Ahead was a coffin surrounded by flower displays, whose sickening sweet odor made her nauseous. She shivered and hurried out into the hallway.
When she found the cellar door, she turned off her lamp and tiptoed down the steps. On the landing, a board creaked. The intruder's light went out. She turned on her own penlight again and called, "Okay you, the jigs up."
The first thing her light showed was a naked corpse on a metal table. It's skin was a pale gray, and the eyes stared at nothingness. "Shit," she cried. A sour taste came into her mouth. She moved the light around. The intruder, a young woman, crouched in a corner sucking a tube in a container. Her pale face and hands were the same ghastly color as the corpse. Big, round eyes with dark circles stared at her. A stream of dark red liquid ran down her chin.
"Okay. Who are you and what are you doing here?"
The strange girl was dressed Goth style, with dozens of earrings, spiked dog collar, tight jeans, a top that ended above the midriff, a pentagram tattooed on her breast and a skull with a bloody knife through an eye socket on one bare shoulder, pink hair cropped like a boy's, white skin so pale it was as though she'd never been in the sun. Nonetheless, she had a eerie beauty, with high cheekbones, full carmine lips, and dark eyes that flashed with amusement. She was a perfect fit to the description that Morgan had given Raven earlier of the vampire who was supposed to be stalking him.
The girl smirked. "My name is Celia. I'm just getting a little drinky. Who are you? You're no cop."
"My name is Raven Lenore. I'm a private investigator. I was hired to find out who stole a corpse from here a couple of weeks ago. Was that you?"
"What the hell would I want with a corpse?"
"What's that stuff you're drinking?" She guessed formaldehyde. Junkies can get high on it when nothing else was available.
"Blood from that corpse. The mortician drains it into jugs. Want to try some, Raven?"
"Blood. So you're a vampire."
"Sad to say, that's true." She grinned at Raven. "Want to donate yours? I won't take much, and it'll be warm and fresh, not like this stuff, which is going bad."
Raven flushed. She had an erotic thought of what it would be like to have that pretty girl's mouth on her throat. But she knew if she allowed a vampire to take one sip she would be the vampire's slave. She backed up a couple of steps and turned away so that she was not looking at the girl's eyes.
"Tell me, Celia. Why did you break in here?"
"I told you. For the blood. I don't like to take any from a person unless they give me permission. Why would anyone care that I drink this stuff? Morticians just dump the stuff anyway."
Raven wanted to run away. She did not like being so close to a vampire. She knew their powers. She had dealt with them before. Nonetheless, she persisted with her questioning. "So you don't have any idea who took John Grebelowski's corpse?"
"John Grebelowski? I didn't even know he was dead."
"But you knew him?"
"Only slightly. He was a friend of a former donor of mine."
Celia took one last sip and stood up. She took a step toward Raven. Raven backed up to the edge of the steps.
"Oh. What's the donor's name?"
"Peter Morgan. But I dumped the creep. He was into some kinky stuff. He wanted me to perform perverse acts in exchange for a pint or so of his blood. That's why I've resorted to this."
"I interviewed Peter. He claims that you were stalking him."
Celia chuckled. "That bastard. He would say something like that. What an ego." She took another step toward Raven. Raven turned and climbed backward two of the cellar steps.
"So, you aren't stalking him?"
"I don't want anything to do with him. Is there anything else you want to know?" She walked forward a couple of steps again. Raven went up another two steps.
Raven rubbed her chin. "I can't think of anything at the moment. How can I contact you if I do?"
"Can I keep this container of blood?"
"Sure. Why not?"
"You won't tell the cops or the mortician?"
"No. I swear." Although it was cold and damp, Raven began to sweat. Celia stopped her relentless move forward.
"If you want me, come to Graceland Cemetery after midnight. I hang out by Schoenhofen's pyramid sometimes."
"Thanks. I may look you up. Enjoy that blood."
Raven hurried up the steps taking two at a time, ran out of the building, leaped into her car and turned on the ignition. The engine turned over but did not start. Raven realized in her that she haste she had flooded it. She saw Celia leave the mortuary carrying the container of blood. She was headed toward Raven's car.
Raven pressed the gas petal to the floor and turned the key again. To her relief, the engine caught. She put the car in gear and peeled rubber out of the parking spot. Despite what the vampire had said, she did not trust the undead. She felt that they were like junkies and would lie or do anything to relieve their cravings.
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SEATTLE, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time, Seattle-based startups have claimed three of the eleven Social Technology slots in the highly competitive SXSW Interactive Startup Accelerator program.
Yabbly, the mobile community for smart, helpful shoppers and LikeBright, the social matchmaking service that helps you meet your friends' friends and match your friends up, were both named as two of the eight finalists in the Social Technologies category for the 5th annual competition. Additionally, Seattle-based DiscoveryJar, a platform for discovering and organizing video recipes, was selected as one of three alternates.
SXSW Accelerator is the marquee event at the SXSW Interactive Festival's Startup Village, allowing the competitors to showcase their most impressive innovations to a panel of celebrated judges and a live audience. More than five hundred young companies applied to present their concepts in 2013, but Yabbly and LikeBright were selected to be among the eight finalists in one of the most buzz-worthy of the seven different categories.
Seattle's standing as the most represented city in this year's social category is significant according to Tom Leung, founder and CEO of Yabbly.
"Seattle is not conventionally considered a hotbed of early-stage, consumer-focused startups but there's an incredible amount of consumer-focused entrepreneurial activity percolating here in the Northwest," he said. "Yabbly, LikeBright, and DiscoveryJar participating in this year's SXSW Startup Accelerator is great evidence of Seattle's recent momentum in the consumer startup space."
These companies are eager to show the best and the brightest in tech what they've been cooking up for social networking.
"LikeBright's mission is to eliminate loneliness using the shared social ties that connect people, and we can't think of a better platform to share our mission with the world than South by Southwest," LikeBright founder and CEO, Nick Soman said.
"This is one of those opportunities you dream about as an entrepreneur, so we're obviously thrilled about the chance to share our karma-driven approach to how the world can make great shopping decisions," Yabbly founder and CEO, Tom Leung said.
"Some truly ground-breaking and disruptive companies once stood where this year's 56 SXSW Accelerator finalists will pitch to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and press," SXSW Accelerator Event Producer, Chris Valentine said. "The bar has been set quite high – 47 percent of previous finalists have received funding, and 10 percent have been acquired. I am confident that this year's SXSW Accelerator finalists will bring equally exceptional and unique products and services to the table, with high potential to impact their respective industries."
About Yabbly
Yabbly is a Seattle-based collaborative shopping service that helps people make great purchasing decisions through shared karma and matched conversations between thoughtful buyers. The company's iPhone app is currently one of the top 10 App Store search results for "product reviews" and has been featured in Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, and Pando Daily. Yabbly's founders previously worked at Google, Amazon, and Target; current investors include the former general counsel of Facebook, CPO of Acxiom, and former CEO of Immunex.
About LikeBright
LikeBright is a Seattle-based social matchmaking service that delivers friend-vetted dates to the 95% of singles who don't date online. NPR's Lauren Silverman notes that the company is "achieving the impossible: an even balance between men and women." LikeBright's founders hail from Amazon, and the company announced new funding last month from Microsoft's Bing Fund and Dr. Galen Buckwalter, the scientific founder of eHarmony.
About DiscoveryJar
DiscoveryJar is Seattle-based social platform which makes discovering and learning new recipes a breeze. Users share video recipes with the community and as people identify their favorite dishes, DiscoveryJar suggests new recipes to try based on their taste.
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The 20th annual SXSW Interactive Festival will take place March 8-12, 2013 in Austin, Texas. An incubator of cutting-edge technologies and digital creativity, the event features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders and an unbeatable line-up of special programs showcasing the best new websites, video games and startup ideas the community has to offer. From hands-on training to big-picture analysis of the future, SXSW Interactive has become the place to experience a preview of what is unfolding in the world of technology. Join us March 2013 for the sessions, the networking, the parties, the 16th Annual SXSW Interactive Awards, SXSW Startup Village, the SXSW Gaming Expo, the SXSW Trade Show and, of course, the inspirational experience that only SXSW can deliver. SXSW Interactive 2013 is sponsored by Miller Lite, Monster Energy, Esurance, IFC, Yahoo!, American Express, PepsiCo, Pepsi, Freecreditscore.com, Chevrolet, American Airlines, Oreo, AT&T and The Austin Chronicle.
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Temasys has announced senior management additions to its team. Joining are David Holloway as Vice President of Commercial and Nadine Yap as Vice President of Product. Over the past 12 months Temasys has doubled in size as it adds new customers and expands the development of its Skylink platform. Skylink leads the charge to move WebRTC, traditionally seen as a desktop, browser based technology, to become a ubiquitous web communications technology on web and mobile, as well as Internet of Things compatible devices.
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The WebRTC Summit 2014 New York, to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is open. Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 16th International Cloud Expo, @ThingsExpo, Big Data Expo, and DevOps Summit.
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Docker is an excellent platform for organizations interested in running microservices. It offers portability and consistency between development and production environments, quick provisioning times, and a simple way to isolate services. In his session at DevOps Summit at 16th Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, co-founder of Rancher Labs, will walk through these and other benefits of using Docker to run microservices, and provide an overview of RancherOS, a minimalist distribution of Linux designed expressly to run Docker. He will also discuss Rancher, an orchestration and service discovery platf...
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Wearable technology was dominant at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , and MWC was no exception to this trend. New versions of favorites, such as the Samsung Gear (three new products were released: the Gear 2, the Gear 2 Neo and the Gear Fit), shared the limelight with new wearables like Pebble Time Steel (the new premium version of the company's previously released smartwatch) and the LG Watch Urbane. The most dramatic difference at MWC was an emphasis on presenting wearables as fashion accessories and moving away from the original clunky technology associated with t...
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@ThingsExpo has been named the Top 5 Most Influential M2M Brand by Onalytica in the 'Machine to Machine: Top 100 Influencers and Brands.' Onalytica analyzed the online debate on M2M by looking at over 85,000 tweets to provide the most influential individuals and brands that drive the discussion. According to Onalytica the "analysis showed a very engaged community with a lot of interactive tweets. The M2M discussion seems to be more fragmented and driven by some of the major brands present in the M2M space. This really allows some room for influential individuals to create more high value inter...
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The list of 'new paradigm' technologies that now surrounds us appears to be at an all time high. From cloud computing and Big Data analytics to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the Internet of Things (IoT), today we have to deal with what the industry likes to call 'paradigm shifts' at every level of IT. This is disruption; of course, we understand that – change is almost always disruptive.
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SYS-CON Events announced today the IoT Bootcamp – Jumpstart Your IoT Strategy, being held June 9–10, 2015, in conjunction with 16th Cloud Expo and Internet of @ThingsExpo at the Javits Center in New York City. This is your chance to jumpstart your IoT strategy. Combined with real-world scenarios and use cases, the IoT Bootcamp is not just based on presentations but includes hands-on demos and walkthroughs. We will introduce you to a variety of Do-It-Yourself IoT platforms including Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, Spark and Intel Edison. You will also get an overview of cloud technologies s...
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sheepdipAlso known as a footbath, a sheepdip is the process of checking physical media, such as floppy disks or CD-ROMs, for viruses before they are used in a computer. Typically, a computer that sheepdips is used only for that process and nothing else and is isolated from the other computers, meaning it is not connected to the network. Most sheepdips use at least two different antivirus programs in order to increase effectiveness. The goal of sheepdipping is to block viruses from entering systems rather than waiting until they manifest on user workstations at which time they will have already done their damage. Sheepdipping is not used for files downloaded from the Internet unless the files are first transferred to a physical removable medium and run through the sheepdip before loaded onto the workstation's hard drive.
The term comes from the practice in sheep farming of dipping the sheep in chemical solutions to clean their wool of fleas and lice or to promote the healing of skin irritations.
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The nation is waiting anxiously as the 3-judge Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court will deliver its judgement on Thursday on the 60-year-old Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, amidst worries about the fall-out of the verdict.
Security was ramped up across the country and leaders cutting across political and religious spectrum appealed for calm on the eve of the verdict on four title suits on the ownership of the 2.7 acre land, the dispute over which changed the course of politics in the last two decades.
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Stephen Johnson launched the Motor City Tour Company in 2009 as Motor City Brew Tours, offering guided brewery tours (with samples) by bus. Each tour would hit three different breweries, and was more than just a standard-issue pub crawl: designed for people with a real passion (or at least sincere interest) for craft beer, the tours also included a meet-and-greet with the brewers themselves and a behind-the-scenes walk-through of the brewing facilities. As Motor City Brew Tours grew, Johnson began offering different kinds of tour packages: first walking tours, then biking tours.
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As in "goin' steady," when a boy and a girl are bf/gf and are unavailable by their respective opposite sexes because they are taken and in love with eachother.... the two are goin' steady.
Hugo asked Kim out several times, and they got pinned, so now they're goin' steady.
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In rap, often used as a synonmy for the word constantly.
I keep on steady smokin', hopefully I dide from chokin'.
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1. Stability - to be stable, balanced.
2. An outdated term for two people dating exclusively.
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2. Ted and Amy are going steady.
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in the act of doing something constantly.
Your girlfriend drove by the house the other day. STEADY CREEPIN'!
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Neither increasing nor decreasing, or if either, very slightly and returning to original value.
The temperature is held at a steady 72 degrees fahrenheit.
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Manual J - Correct Load size?
Can someone please look at this load calculation and let me know if the contractors assumption of 3.91 tons is correct? I thought this looked like 3 tons? anyone know for sure?
Location= Austin, TX
Total Loss= 41871
Heating CFM= (539)
Sensible Gain= 28,639
Cooling CFM= 1,563
Heating BTUs= 41871
Heat CFM= (539)
Cooling BTUs= 30,899
Cooling CFM=1,563
What size is your home?
Who performed the Man J? Do you know the software used to provide these numbers? Design temps both inside and outside used?
I personally think the numbers are highly suspect. With that said, someone needs to run the Man J again and make a comparison. That would be my approach.
It's difficult for me to believe that a homeowner could drop from a 4 ton down to a three ton and maintain AC cooling comfort level for Austin, Tx.
Is this a HP system or AC with gas furnace?
I am not a professional, but I will share my opinion as to what this load calculation means to me.
Your load calculation has cooling air flow (CFM) for each room. I don't have this on my Manual J calculation, so I am not sure how this is calculated. The report shows the total CFM is is 1,563. If you divide this number by 400 you get the the value 3.91. The general rule is you need to provide 400CFM of air flow for every ton of cooling.
However the total cooling load is 30,889BTU. This is a little over 2.5 tons. I don't understand why the air flow has been calculated to be so high. This doesn't make sense to me.
If this is a Manual J calculation then there should be summer and winter indoor and outdoor design temperatures. If it does not, then I would be suspicious of this calculations. Have the contractor explain the physics behind this calculation.
The contractor performed the manual J. This will be a heatpump system.
The contractor has been stating 4 tons and using the general rule of thumb here in austin with tonnage 600 sq ft /ton from the begining of our meetings. House is approxiamtely 2392 sq ft. hence the 4 ton. i'm feeling suspect with the design myself, but he keeps calling for a 4 ton. and even after an hour conversation with him finally said a 4ton evolution system is the best and the system will run at a 3 ton effectively being the same and the 4 ton will call for when needed on the hot days. Finally towards the end of negotiating, he did agree that a 3.5 ton is doable.
from the page it looks like Nitek software, design temps were 100 outside 76 inside
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I'm thinking the tightness of the house is ach .35-.45 which is what austin energy requires. House has R30 in the attic. 2 story house on slab.


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the car had overheated , never doing this before , and at the same time the transmission started messing up , as in didn't want to shift into gear , i know nothing about cars but was told that the radiator must have went bad , could that be it?
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Yes, unfortunately, there is a transmission cooler in the bottom tank of the radiator that failed. This caused the transmission fluid to mix with the antifreeze and vice versa. You will need a transmission and cooling system flush and depending on how bad your Neon overheated...you may need a heat gasket replacement.
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ST. MARYS — Ottawa-Glandorf emerged with a 58-54 win over the St. Marys boys basketball team on Friday night in a ragged, physical game that featured 65 combined free throws — 28 of which were missed — and the constant interrupting trill of whistles.
The Titans went on a 6-0 run late in the fourth quarter to build a big enough cushion to overcome an awful night at the free throw line and from the floor. O-G won for the fifth time in their last six outings.
NEW BREMEN — A 7-0 run midway through the third quarter got the Versailles Tigers some space. They went on to defeat the New Bremen Cardinals 67-62 Friday night in a key MAC contest played at New Bremen.
"I thought it was a product of them being more aggressive in the second half," Cardinals head coach Adam Dougherty said. "Early in the second half they were more aggressive than we were. (Mitch) Campbell got the ball and went to work."
Carman A. Hirschfeld, 95, of New Bremen, died at 6:25 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at the Heritage Manor Nursing Center in Minster.
He was born on Feb. 17, 1916, on a farm near New Bremen, the son of Benjamin and Malinda (Kellermeyer) Hirschfeld, and they preceded him in death.
On Oct. 4, 1940, he married Norma Davenport, and she preceded him in death on May 30, 1998.
Lester L. Johnson, 76, of 220 Lincoln Drive, Celina, died at 9:44 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima.
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On July 8, 1963, he married Jeanie Ousley, and she survives in Celina.
He is also survived by his daughter, Candy (Tom) Wale of Celina; a granddaughter.
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ST. MARYS — A St. Marys optometrist's prison sentence has been stayed, pending the outcome of his appeal.
MINSTER —A series of free throws in the final two minutes allowed the New Knoxville Rangers to down Minster 43-41 in a match-up of two of the Midwest Athletic Conference's top teams.
"It's a big win whenever you can come into Minster here and pull off a win, because they've got a very good team," said New Knoxville head coach Tim Hegemier. "I think the girls worked real hard on defense."
VERSAILLES — On a night where neither team really shot that well the Versailles Tigers took advantage of 23 New Bremen Cardinal turnovers to defeat the Cardinals 35-18 Thursday evening in a MAC contest played at Versailles.
OTTAWA — The St. Marys girls basketball team put together strong bookend performances on Thursday night. The middle portions of the game proved to be the Roughriders' undoing.
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A self-localizing receive coil system for use with a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system comprises at least one surface coil assembly for placement adjacent to a region of interest to be imaged and a plurality of tracking devices attached to the surface coil assembly for use in indicating location and orientation of the surface coil assembly during imaging.
1. A self-localizing receive coil system for use with a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system comprising:
at least one surface coil assembly for placement adjacent to a region of interest to be imaged; and,
a plurality of tracking devices attached to the at least one surface coil assembly for use in indicating location and orientation of the surface coil assembly during imaging.
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8. A method for locating at least one surface coil assembly placed adjacent to a region of interest to be imaged within a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system comprising:
receiving magnetic resonance (MR) signals from a plurality of tracking devices attached to at least one surface coil assembly; and,
processing the MR signals to indicate a location of the surface coil assembly during imaging.
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This invention relates to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and more particularly to receive coils for MRI.
Optimal image quality in Magnetic Resonance Imaging is frequently obtained through the combined use of a large transmit coil and a smaller receive-only surface coil. The large transmit coil provides a relatively uniform excitation field whereas the smaller receive coil provides an optimal Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) over the volume of interest. One important variation of this idea is the use of phased-array receive coils to provide the SNR of a smaller coil, but with the coverage of the entire array.
Recently, new techniques have been developed in which phased-array coils are used to provide partial spatial information for image reconstruction in order to reduce the scan time. These techniques known as SMASH (SiMultaneous Acquisition of Spatial Harmonics) and SENSE (Sensitivity Encoding) require that the location of the individual coils are known and characterized prior to use. Consequently, the placement of the coils is restricted to predetermined locations. Additionally, placement of the coils generally requires operator intervention subject to human error to register or locate the coils within the MRI system prior to image acquisition.
Surface coils and phased-array surface coils have several additional aspects that can be problematic in MR imaging. For example, surface coils have a very non-uniform sensitivity profile and images obtained with such coils typically have severe shading artifacts. This problem becomes increasingly severe as the coil becomes smaller.
Another aspect of surface coils is that they can be placed anywhere on the patient. For example, flexible phased array coils (also known as FLAP coils) can be wrapped around the patient before the patient is introduced into the magnet. While this aspect of surface coils is typically viewed as beneficial, if the coils are not properly placed with respect to both the patient's anatomy and the imaging volume of the MRI system, aliasing of image data can occur. This aliasing occurs when a large transmit coil has a spatial coverage that encompasses a portion of the patient beyond the nominal region of gradient linearity.
Because the magnetic field gradient is created by a physical gradient coil, the gradient cannot have an infinite extent. Thus, at some distance from the center of the gradient coil along the axis of the applied field gradient, the gradient coil makes no contribution to the local magnetic field. Consequently, in some region between the electromagnetic end and the point of maximum field change within the gradient coil, the magnetic field created by the magnet is identical to the magnetic field at some point within the active volume of the gradient coil. Thus, aliasing of image information becomes possible. This form of aliasing (hereinafter referred to as �large field of view (FOV) aliasing�) occurs in the intersection of the following regions:
a) Within the excitation volume of a large transmit (i.e. Body) coil;
b) Beyond the turn-around points of the magnetic field gradient;
c) Within the homogeneous field region of the magnet;
d) Within the sensitive volume of the receive coil; and,
e) Within a region having an active MR signal source.
An MRI system which takes full advantage of the benefits afforded surface coils and surface coil arrays, while overcoming the undesirable effects of coil placement restrictions, MR signal shading and large FOV signal aliasing is needed.
A self-localizing receive coil system for use with a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system comprises at least one surface coil assembly for placement adjacent to a region of interest to be imaged and a plurality of tracking devices attached to the surface coil assembly for use in indicating location and orientation of the surface coil assembly during imaging.
The features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when read with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an MRI system which employs the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a tracking coil to which embodiments of the present invention are applicable;
FIG. 3 is a graphic representation of an MR pulse sequence used by the MRI system of FIG. 1 to measure the position of the tracking coil of FIG. 2; and,
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a self-localizing receive coil system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
In order to overcome the limitations of surface coils in MR imaging, the invention described here incorporates self-localizing units in each surface coil. In an embodiment of the present invention, a self-localizing surface coil system comprises a surface coil and a tracking coil. The surface coil, the tracking unit and their ancillary hardware and software comprise a surface coil localizing system that can be based upon MR tracking technology, electromagnetic tracking technology, optical location methods or the like. For the purposes of illustration, MR tracking technology will be used in the remainder of this disclosure, but one skilled in the art would appreciate that the methods and systems disclosed would be applicable to other localization methods.
Referring first to FIG. 1, there are shown the major components of a preferred MRI system that incorporates embodiments of the present invention. The operation of the system is controlled from an operator console 100. Console 100 includes a keyboard and control panel 102 and a display 104. A separate display (not shown) can be located near the magnet system 103 so that system controls are available to a physician attending the subject of a MRI scan. The console 100 communicates through a link 116 with a separate computer system 107 that enables an operator to control the production and display of images on the screen 104. The computer system 107 includes a number of modules that communicate with each other through a backplane. These include an image processor module 106, a CPU module 108 and a memory module 113, known in the art as a frame buffer for storing image data arrays. The computer system 107 is linked to a disk storage 111 and a tape drive 112 for storage of image data and programs, and it communicates with a separate system control 122 through a high speed serial link 115.
The system control 122 includes a set of modules connected together by a backplane. These include a CPU module 119 and a pulse generator module 121 that connects to the operator console 100 through a serial link 125. It is through this link 125 that the system control 122 receives commands from the operator to indicate the scan sequence that is to be performed. The pulse generator module 121 operates the system components to carry out the desired scan sequence. It produces data that indicates the timing, strength and shape of the RF pulses to be produced, and the timing of and length of the data acquisition window. The pulse generator module 121 connects to a set of gradient amplifiers 127, to indicate the timing and shape of the gradient pulses to be produced during the scan. The pulse generator module 121 also receives patient data from a physiological acquisition controller 129 that receives signals from a number of different sensors connected to the patient, such as ECG signals from electrodes or respiratory signals from a bellows. And finally, the pulse generator module 121 connects to a locator sub-system 133. Locator sub-system 133 is adapted to compute the location of a device within the field of view (FOV) of the MRI system in accordance with embodiments of the present invention as described below. The medical device may be an invasive device, a tracking coil or a surface coil (to which embodiments of the present invention are applicable and will be discussed in greater detail with reference to FIG. 4). As used herein, �adapted to�, �configured� and the like refer to mechanical or structural connections between elements to allow the elements to cooperate to provide a described effect; these terms also refer to operation capabilities of electrical elements such as analog or digital computers or application specific devices (such as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC)) that are programmed to perform a sequel to provide an output in response to given input signals.
The gradient wave forms produced by the pulse generator module 121 are applied to a gradient amplifier system 127 comprised of Gx, Gy and Gz amplifiers. Each gradient amplifier excites a corresponding gradient coil in the magnet system 103 to produce the magnetic field gradients used for position encoding acquired signals. A transceiver module 150 in the system control 122 produces pulses which are amplified by an RF amplifier 151 and coupled to an RF coil in the magnet assembly 103 by a transmit/receive switch 154. The resulting signals radiated by the excited nuclei in the patient may be sensed by the same RF coil and coupled through the transmit/receive switch 154 to a preamplifier 153. The amplified MR signals are demodulated, filtered, and digitized in the receiver section of the transceiver 150. The transmit/receive switch 154 is controlled by a signal from the pulse generator module 121 to electrically connect the RF amplifier 151 to the RF coil during the transmit mode and to connect the preamplifier 153 during the receive mode. In an embodiment of the present invention, a RF tracking coil (shown as 200 in FIG. 2) is mounted in a surface coil assembly 400 and RF tracking coil is connected directly to a second pre-amplifier 156. In an embodiment, the surface coil 400 is for superficial use and is placed by the attending physician or technologist and MR signals are detected by the tracking coil, are processed and used to locate the position of the surface coil. The imaging MR signals from the surface coil are coupled through pre-amplifier 153 to transceiver 150. As will be discussed in greater detail with reference to FIG. 4, an embodiment of the present invention provides a receive coil system comprising a surface coil and a plurality of tracking coils. The receive coil system detects MR signals in a similar manner and the signals are processed to locate the position of the surface coil. The amplified RF tracking coil signal is input to the transceiver module 150.
The MR signals picked up by a RF coil are digitized by the transceiver module 150 and transferred to a memory module 160 in the system control 122. When an array of k-space image data has been acquired in the memory module 160, an array processor 161 operates to Fourier transform the k-space data into an array of image data which is presented to the attending physician on a display 134. This image data may also be conveyed through the serial link 115 to the computer system 107 where it is stored in the disk memory 111. In response to commands received from the operator console 100, this image data may be archived on the tape drive 112, or it may be further processed by the image processor 106 and conveyed to the operator console 100 and presented on the display 104.
FIG. 1 illustrates an open MRI system, which is designed to allow access by a physician. It is to be appreciated that the embodiments of the present invention described herein are also applicable to a conventional closed MRI system. Referring particularly to FIG. 1, when an intra-operative MR imaging procedure is conducted a patient is placed in the magnet system 103 and a region of interest in the patient is aligned near the system iso-center located between the two, spaced magnet rings 140 and 142. A physician standing between magnet rings 140 and 142 has unrestricted access to the region of interest in the patient.
The images to be produced by the MRI system are prescribed by selecting an appropriate MR imaging pulse sequence to be executed by the pulse generator 121. The location and orientation of the slices or 3D region to be imaged is also prescribed and is determined by the particular patient anatomy the physician wants to see during the procedure being performed. This location and orientation remains fixed until new commands are applied to the pulse generator 121.
In an embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of tracking coils are mounted on a surface coil that is to be placed on a subject within the MRI system. Tracking coil measurement acquisitions are interleaved with the acquisition of image data and MR tracking signals are detected by a tracking coil, are amplified by preamplifier 156 and coupled to transceiver module 150. These signals are then Fourier transformed by the array processor 161. The transformed MR tracking data is used by the locator sub-system 133 to produce a location measurement of the surface coil assembly.
In the present invention, the position of the tracking coil 200 relative to the gradient iso-center is measured using a position measurement MR pulse sequence shown in FIG. 3. This gradient recalled echo pulse sequence yields a signal that is essentially a Fourier transform of a projection of the coil location along the readout gradient direction. Assuming that the tracking coil 200 is small, its position S1 is modeled by:
where Δω is the measurement angular frequency of the gradient echo signal relative to ω0, the Larmor frequency g, is the gyromagnetic ratio of the nuclear spins, and G1 is the applied readout gradient. The three-dimensional position of each tracking coil 200 can be identified from three linearly independent gradient echoes.
The geometry of a typical tracking coil is shown in FIG. 2. This coil 200 has a solenoid geometry and a relatively well characterized sensitivity profile. MR signals detected by coil 200 are propagated to the MR system by co-axial conductors 230 and 231.
Referring particularly to FIG. 3, the tracking coil measurement pulse sequence includes a non-selective RF excitation pulse 250 that is applied to the MRI system whole body RF coil. It has a selected flip angle, typically chosen to be between 10 and 60 degrees and it produces transverse magnetization in spins located throughout the magnet bore. Three gradient wave forms 256, 257 and 258 are then applied to produce a gradient recalled MR echo signal. The T/R switch 154 is controlled during a data acquisition window 252 to receive an MR tracking signal 254 from the tracking coil 200. The three gradient wave forms 256, 257 and 258 are applied along the respective Gx, Gy and Gz gradient axes, and each includes a respective de-phase lobe 260, 261 and 262 and a respective readout lobe 264, 265 and 266. As indicated by the cross-hatching, the area of each de-phasing lobe 260-262 is equal to one-half the area of the respective readout lobes 264-266.
In the measurement pulse sequence of FIG. 3, all of the gradients waveforms 256-258 all have the same polarity, which is designated herein as �+�. �−� indicates the polarity of gradient pulses 260-262 and 264-266 having a polarity opposite that of waveforms 256-258. This pulse sequence is performed a total of four times with the polarity of the Gx, Gy and Gz gradient pulses selectively reversed as set forth in Table 1.
As indicated above, the four MR tracking signals 254 are Fourier transformed to produce four corresponding projections P1, P2, P3 and P4. Together, these four projections form an MR tracking data set from which the x, y and z coordinates of the tracking coil position can be calculated in a manner well known to those skilled in the art.
Referring to FIG. 4, there is shown an embodiment of a self-localizing receive coil system, or alternatively a self-localizing surface coil system, in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. As used herein, �surface coil� refers to a receive only RF imaging coil which, in general, is placed adjacent to the surface of the object being imaged. Also, as used herein, �self-localizing� refers to a system capability to identify location independent of operator intervention. In this embodiment, a surface coil is constructed to incorporate MR tracking locator coils. As shown in FIG. 4, a self-localizing receive coil system 400 for use with a MRI system comprises at least one surface coil assembly 410 for placement adjacent a region of interest to be imaged and a plurality of tracking devices 420 attached to surface coil assembly 410 for use in indicating location and orientation of the surface coil during imaging. Surface coil assembly 410 may be a conventional surface coil, a phase-darray surface coil or a flexible phased-array (FLAP) surface coil. Tracking devices 420 may be selected from any conventional tracking coils known to those skilled in the art. A cable 430 is provided to couple to the MRI system to communicate with locator sub-system 133 of FIG. 1 for tracking location of surface coil assembly. Additionally, cable 430 is adapted to carry MR signals corresponding to imaging information to the MRI system in the manner described with reference to FIG. 1. If the location and orientation of the surface coil are to be measured with MR tracking methods, at least three tracking devices arranged in a non-linear fashion are needed since each coil is capable of providing a location, but not an orientation. Desirably, tracking devices 420 are equally spaced on the surface of surface coil 410, and more particularly in an equilateral triangle configuration for optimal sensitivity and orientation measurements. It is appreciated that the quantity of tracking devices and placement about the surface coil are modifiable by one skilled in the art in order to measure orientation and location. The MR tracking devices 420 are each comprised of a simple solenoid coil wound around a small MR-active sample such as a small glass vial of water doped with CuSO4 or a Gadolinium (Gd) relaxation agent.
In this embodiment, the MR tracking coils are used to identify the three-dimensional location and orientation of one or more surface coils. This localization can be performed very quickly (typically in less than 50 ms) and accurately (within 1 mm). For most applications it is sufficient to locate the surface coil immediately prior to image acquisition, although if necessary the coil localization can be performed as often as desired during scanning.
Once the surface coil location is known, it can be used in a number of ways. For example, if the intention is to acquire an intensity-corrected image, the location of surface coil can be used as an input to an intensity correction algorithm to reduce shading due to spatial variation in surface coil sensitivity. Such a correction can be based upon the Biot-Savat law or other similar theoretical models.
An alternative use for the self-localizing surface coil is in the context of high-speed imaging procedures such as SENSE and SMASH. These procedures take advantage of the spatial distribution of multiple receive coils to reduce the number of phase-encoding steps required to make an image. Phased-array coils used for these applications are typically constructed as a linear array of coils placed along the direction of the phase encoding gradient. In order to fully realize the benefit provided by the array, however, its location must be precisely known. To date, this has been done by placing the surface coil in a known location within the magnet, or by acquiring a reference image and estimating the coil location. Using self-localizing surface coils such as the one described above, the exact location of the surface coils could be determined without requiring the coils to be pre-positioned in a prescribed location or the acquisition of a reference scan.
A third use for the self-localizing coils is the elimination of aliasing artifacts such as the large FOV aliasing described above. In this embodiment, the self-localizing receive coil system is adapted to locate elements of the phased array coil contributing to aliasing artifacts. Self-localizing coils can do this by determining if one or more elements of a phased array coil are placed within a region of the magnet bore known to give large FOV aliasing problems. If a coil is found to be in this region, it can be turned off (or its data not used in the reconstruction). Thus, the final image does not suffer from an undesired aliasing artifact.
While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described herein, it will be obvious that such embodiments are provided by way of example only. Numerous variations, changes and substitutions will occur to those of skill in the art without departing from the invention herein. Accordingly, it is intended that the invention be limited only by the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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