Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Patent
1997-12-10
1999-08-03
Lateef, Marvin M.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
600421, 600422, 324318, 324322, A61B 5055
Patent
active
059317817
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to A method for imaging jointed movable parts of an object by magnetic resonance, where a third part of the object moves along a trajectory near a pivot between a first and a second part of the object, and where the position of the third part is dependent, in conformity with a predetermined relation, on an orientation of the first and the second part relative to the pivot. The method is used, for example for forming a series of images of the patella during the movement of the knee of a human body. According to the method, the measuring zone is adjusted to the instantaneous position of the patella in order to generate imaging pulse sequences. An angle formed by the orientations of the lower leg and the upper leg with respect to one another is measured in order to determine the instantaneous position of the patella. The angle can be determined from the position of RF coils fastened to the lower leg and the upper leg. Another possibility for determining the angle between the lower leg and the upper leg involves the use of MR navigator signals.
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Joachim Brossmann, Claus Muhle, Cornelia Schroder, Uwe H. Melchert, Christian C. Bull, Rolf P. Spielmann, Martin Heller "Patellar Tracking Patterns During Active and Passive Knee Extension: Evaluation with Motion-Triggered Cine MR Imaging", pp. 205-212, Departments of Radiology and Orthopedics, from the 1992 RSNA Scientific Assembly.
Lateef Marvin M.
Mantis Mercader Eleni
Renfrew, Jr. Dwight H.
U.S. Philips Corporation
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