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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1996
Frederic Ghislain Pla, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Robert Arvin Hedeen, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Robert James Dobberstein, New Berlin, WI (US);
Thomas Gerard Ebben, Sullivan, WI (US);
Scott Thomas Mansell, Waterford, WI (US);
Kemakolam Michael Obasih, Brookfield, WI (US);
Michael James Radziun, Waterford, WI (US);
Peter Ping-Liang Sue, Florence, SC (US);
William Alan Edelstein, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI) scanner subassembly. In one subassembly, a preferably annularly-cylindrical-shaped enclosure contains a first vacuum, and an MRI gradient coil assembly is located within the enclosure in the first vacuum. Preferably, an annularly-cylindrical housing is included which is coaxially aligned with the enclosure and contains a second vacuum which is higher than the first vacuum, and an MRI superconductive main coil is located within the housing in the second vacuum. In another subassembly, an MRI gradient coil assembly has a threshold excitation frequency, and an isolation mount assemblage supports the MRI gradient coil assembly.