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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Godfrey Vassallo, Northport, NY (US);
Michael Boitano, Smithtown, NY (US);
John Linardos, Smithtown, NY (US);
Jevan Damadian, East Northport, NY (US);
Jayne J Cohen, New Hyde Park, NY (US);
Raymond V Damadian, Woodbury, NY (US);
Fonar Corporation, Melville, NY (US);
Abstract
A personal computer or 'PC' based software control system for a magnetic resonance imaging or 'MRI' scanner. The software control system manages various types of MRI scanners without modification of the software control system. The control system manages the scanning process through a device driver interface which abstracts the particulars of the specific hardware used to interface to the magnetic, radio frequency, image display, image acquisition, patient handling and scan control subsystems.