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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Osamu Furuta, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiko Hayaklawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 ;
Abstract
In order to mitigate the feeling of confinement experienced by a subject (patient) and improve the S/N ratio of an MRI coil when used as a head coil, there is provided an MRI coil,comprising a pair of opposing coils,and,whose coil surfaces face each other with an imaging space interposed, and a quadrature coil,which has a coil surface orthogonal to the coil surfaces of the opposing coils,and,and surrounds the imaging space. When the MRI coil,is used as a head coil, the quadrature coil,is fitted over the eyes of a subject H, and the opposing coils,and,are positioned near the ears of the subject H.