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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1992
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an illuminating method for nuclear magnetic resonance inspection, the progress of inspection is visually informed to a patient so that the patient can easily and surely keep himself or herself at rest during a scanning period, thereby improving accuracy of the inspection and allowing the patient to feel more at ease. Control signals indicating the progress of inspection are supplied from a control circuit to an illumination control circuit. The illumination control circuit changes, based on the control signals, the intensity, color, etc. of light emitted from a magnet cavity illuminating panel in accordance with the progress of inspection. It is thus possible to visually inform the patient of the progress of inspection, improve accuracy of the inspection, and illuminate a magnetic field generating space for suppressing a feeling of uneasiness felt by the patient.