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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:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1997
Glyn A. Coutts, Hanwell, GB;
Larry Kasuboski, Solon, OH (US);
Picker International, Inc., Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A medical instrument, for use in relation to an MR scanner, comprising body portion having mounted thereon a plurality of positioning elements each of which comprises a reservoir containing a liquid and at least two spaced tuned MR auxiliary receiver coils positioned coaxially with respect to one another and carried by the reservoir, and means for electrically connecting the said auxiliary coils to separate receiver channels of the MR scanner. Flux enhancement is used to enable the positioning elements to be rapidly located without disturbing the magnetization of the patient and thereby permit the position of the medical instrument and the image of the patient to be rapidly cycled between.