Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Ronald Gene Pratt

Neil David Johnson

A system for guiding a medical intervention is disclosed. The system employs a device guide that operates on the surface of a sphere that is centered on a selected target.

System and method for guiding an invasive device

A Faraday cage assembly for use with a Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging scanner is deployed inside the MR scanner room. The Faraday cage assembly is configured to accept accessory medical equipment which is desired to be attached to the patient during scanning. Accessory medical equipment can include patient monitoring systems, injector pumps, and intravenous (IV) poles with infusion pumps. Once the accessory medical equipment is placed inside the Faraday cage, radiofrequency (RF) interference emitted by the accessory medical equipment is contained within the cage and cannot significantly degrade MR image quality. The cage may permit non-MR compatible accessory equipment such as infusion pumps to be used without modification or reconfiguration during MR scanning.

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Erlanger, KY, United States of America

Ronald Gene Pratt