General Electric Company

In-Hua Xu

Evangelos Trifon Laskaris

Longzhi Jiang

Kathleen Melanie Amm

William Louis Einziger

Gregory Alan Lehmann

Daniel C Woods

John Arthur Urbahn

John Scaturro, Jr

Jalal Hunain Zia

William S Stogner

Roy A Mangano

Deborah R Mantone

Systems and methods for self-sealing a coldhead sleeve of a magnetic resonance imaging system are provided. One coldhead sleeve arrangement includes a coldhead sleeve configured to receive therein a coldhead of an MRI system and having an open end. The coldhead sleeve arrangement also includes a sealing member coupled at the open end of the coldhead sleeve and configured in a normally closed position covering the open end.

System and method for self-sealing a coldhead sleeve of a magnetic resonance imaging system

A system and method for de-icing a recondensor includes at least one heating element configured to melt iced particles from a recondensing system. A power delivery circuit is included configured to deliver power to the at least one resistive heating element such that the at least one resistive heating element delivers a supply of heat sufficient to melt the iced particles from the recondensing system.

System and method for de-icing recondensor for liquid cooled zero-boil-off MR magnet

A recondensing zero boiloff superconducting magnet assembly utilizing a cryocooler with a compressible indium gasket positioned between the cryocooler and the recondenser and with the gasket containing a plurality of spaced parallel grid wires with interconnecting web segments of a lesser thickness interconnecting the mid sections of ends of adjacent wires to facilitate compression of the gasket to control improved thermal conductivity while minimizing the pressure and forces on the assembly.

Thermal conductance gasket for zero boiloff superconducting magnet

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