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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2005
James S. Tropp, Berkeley, CA (US);
Paul D. Calderon, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Daniel Blackburn Vigneron, Corte Madera, CA (US);
Lucas Guillermo Carvajal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Konstantinos George Karpodinis, Redding, CA (US);
James S. Tropp, Berkeley, CA (US);
Paul D. Calderon, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Daniel Blackburn Vigneron, Corte Madera, CA (US);
Lucas Guillermo Carvajal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Konstantinos George Karpodinis, Redding, CA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which a compact pod insertable into the rectum for Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRI/MRS) examination of the prostate and containing two receive coils, each connected to transmit blocking and pre-tuned trap circuitry which can be superimposed within the pod in close proximity, can, without either circuit interfering with the other, efficiently gather, for imaging and tissue analysis, radio frequency signals emanating from magnetically disturbed nuclei in prostate tissue.