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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2007
Hiromitsu Takamori, Otawara, JP;
Ayumi Katsunuma, Otawara, JP;
Kazuhiko Tsujita, Otawara, JP;
Souhei Fukunishi, Nasushiobara, JP;
Hiromitsu Takamori, Otawara, JP;
Ayumi Katsunuma, Otawara, JP;
Kazuhiko Tsujita, Otawara, JP;
Souhei Fukunishi, Nasushiobara, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-Shi, JP;
Abstract
An MRI apparatus has a gantry, a bed and a lighting unit collective including a plurality of lighting units. The gantry accommodates a static field magnet configured to generate a static field, a gradient coil configured to generate a gradient magnetic field, and an RF coil configured to transmit or receive an RF pulse as well as having an opening into which a person is inserted. The bed has a removable table-top for an inside and an outside of the opening. The lighting unit group is disposed at at least one of an inside position of the opening and an outside position from which an inside of the opening can be lighted so that the lighting units can carry out lighting such that an amount of emitting light increases bit by bit from a bedside to a counter bedside opposite to the bedside across the opening.