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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2020
Applicant:
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Inventors:
Patrick McDaniel, Cambridge, MA (US);
Lawrence L. Wald, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01R 33/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G01R 33/246 (2013.01); G01R 33/48 (2013.01);
Abstract
A magnet assembly for a portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a former having a plurality of slots and a plurality of magnet blocks configured to create a single-sided permanent magnet. Each of the plurality of magnet blocks are positioned in one of the plurality of slots of the former. The arrangement of the plurality of magnet blocks is configured to optimize homogeneity over a target field of view for brain imaging and to form a cap-shaped configuration to be positioned on a head of a subject.