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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
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 give a physician easy access to a patient placed in an interjacent space within a vertical magnet apparatus of a vertical magnet-type MRI apparatus, support and movement mechanisms are provided on respective opposing surface sides of a pair of vertical opposing magnets for supporting a cradle or a seat of a chair on belts and moving the cradle or the seat in the horizontal direction by motors and in the vertical direction by hydraulic cylinders