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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC (US);
Timothy William Skloss, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jonathan Alan Murray, Dousman, WI (US);
Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen, Frederiksberg C, DK;
Murali K. Cherukuri, Potomac, MD (US);
Marcelino Bernardo, Germantown, MD (US);
Nallathamby Devasahayam, Germantown, MD (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for transporting a hyperpolarized substance is disclosed. A transport vessel for transporting such a hyperpolarized substance includes a vessel housing, a chamber formed within the vessel housing that is configured to receive a container holding a hyperpolarized substance, and an electromagnet configured to generate a magnetic containment field about the chamber when a current is supplied thereto, the magnetic containment field comprising a homogeneous magnetic field. The transport vessel also includes a non-magnetic power source to supply the current to the electromagnet and a control circuit configured to selectively interrupt the supply of current to the electromagnet so as to control generation of the magnetic containment field, with the transport vessel being magnetically inert when the supply of current to the electromagnet is interrupted by the control circuit.