Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1995-10-02
1997-03-18
Lateef, Marvin M.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
128654, 324309, A61B 5055
Patent
active
056113404
ABSTRACT:
A magnetic resonance (MR) active invasive device system employs a small, high-field polarizing magnet, and a large low-field magnetic resonance (MR) imaging magnet for the purpose of generating MR angiograms of selected blood vessels. A subject is positioned in a large low-field MR imaging magnet. A catheter is inserted into the patient at or near the root of a vessel tree desired to be imaged. A hydrogen gas is first cooled and condensed into a liquid state, and then passed through the small high-field polarizing magnet where it becomes highly polarized. A contrast fluid is then made by chemically combining the polarized hydrogen with oxygen to obtain highly polarized water. The water is then heated to physiologic temperatures and, if desired, made more physiologically compatible with the addition of substances such as salts. The physiologically conditioned polarized fluid is then introduced into the subject through the catheter. Radiofrequency (RF) pulses and magnetic field gradients are then applied to the patient as in conventional MR imaging. Since the fluid has a larger longitudinal magnetization than tissue which has not passed through the polarizing magnet, the fluid produces a much larger MR response signal than other tissue resulting in the vessel tree being imaged with excellent contrast.
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Dumoulin Charles L.
Souza Steven P.
General Electric Company
Lateef Marvin M.
Shaw Shawna J.
Snyder Marvin
Zale Lawrence P.
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