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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2021
Applicant:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, Chiba, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/30 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G01R 33/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/307 (2013.01); G01R 33/543 (2013.01); G01R 33/5608 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging target site of a subject can be automatically aligned with imaging space, without using additional hardware. A nuclear magnetic resonance signal received by a receiver coil arranged at the imaging target site of the subject is used to calculate a position of the receiver coil. A table on which the subject is placed is moved in a manner to align the position of the receiver coil with the imaging space of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus. With this configuration, the imaging target site of the subject can be aligned with the imaging space of the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus.