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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2002
Krzysztof Nesteruk, Warszawa, PL;
Jaroslaw Wosik, Houston, TX (US);
Leiming P. Xie, Houston, TX (US);
James T. Willerson, Houston, TX (US);
Samuel Ward Casscells, Houston, TX (US);
Morteza Naghavi, Houston, TX (US);
Krzysztof Nesteruk, Warszawa, PL;
Jaroslaw Wosik, Houston, TX (US);
Leiming P. Xie, Houston, TX (US);
James T. Willerson, Houston, TX (US);
Samuel Ward Casscells, Houston, TX (US);
Morteza Naghavi, Houston, TX (US);
The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
The University of Houston, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an intraluminal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probe which may be used for intraluminal MRI. The present invention is sized sufficiently small to be inserted into a patient intraluminally. The probe of the present invention comprises a substrate having a dielectric constant in the range of 1-1000, and first and second conducting layers on each side of the dielectric. The present invention is configured to result in a distributed capacitance.