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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:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Leon Kaufman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jianhua Li, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph W Carlson, Kensington, CA (US);
Bruce C Breneman, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Toshiba America MRI, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324319 ; 324320 ;
Abstract
Convenient side access to an image volume located within a two-pole, two-column main magnet of an MRI system is provided by rotating the symmetry axis of the magnet to be non-perpendicular with respect to the longitudinal axis of the patient transport and/or otherwise displacing the two column structures of the magnetic circuit so as to permit open and unobstructed access to the image volume along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the patient transport.