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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2006
Viola Rieke, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rosemary Kim Butts, Redwood City, CA (US);
Arundhuti Ganguly, San Jose, CA (US);
Norbert J. Pelc, Los Altos, CA (US);
Viola Rieke, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rosemary Kim Butts, Redwood City, CA (US);
Arundhuti Ganguly, San Jose, CA (US);
Norbert J. Pelc, Los Altos, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Improved compatibility of MRI with radiation imaging is provided by MRI RF coils having transmissive coil sections. The transmissive coil sections are substantially transparent to the penetrating radiation employed by the radiation imaging system. Thus the transmissive coil sections can be disposed in a field of view of the radiation imaging system without introducing artifacts into the radiation images. Transparency to penetrating radiation can be achieved by substantially including only low atomic number (i.e., Z<29) elements in the transmissive coil sections. Preferably, the transmissive coil sections are fabricated substantially from aluminum.