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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2000
Gordon T. Danby, Wading River, NY (US);
Jevan Damadian, East Northport, NY (US);
John Linardos, Smithtown, NY (US);
Raymond V. Damadian, Woodbury, NY (US);
Hank Hsieh, Berkeley, CA (US);
William H. Wahl, Smithtown, NY (US);
Fonar Corporation, Melville, NY (US);
Abstract
A magnet for magnetic resonance imaging has a box-like ferromagnetic frame with vertical side walls, poles connected to the side walls and top and bottom walls forming flux return structures between the side walls. The frame has open front and rear sides defining patient entry openings, and has top and bottom openings in the top and bottom walls. A patient can be positioned in a vertical, horizontal or intermediate orientation within the frame. When the patient is in the vertical orientation, the patient can be raised or lowered so that parts of the patient's body protrude into the top or bottom openings, so as to align any part of the patient's body with the poles. The apparatus allows imaging of any part of the anatomy while the patient is in a standing position.