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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:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waikesha, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 ;
Abstract
In order to provide an RF coil for effective imaging from a vertex to an upper T spine, a coil surrounding a forehead portion of an imaging object, a coil surrounding a nose portion over the protuberance of the nose, a coil surrounding the neck, and a coil holding the upper T spine, are integrally molded to construct a coil assembly which can be separated into front and rear parts.