Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1993-11-02
1994-11-22
Smith, Ruth S.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
324309, A61B 5055
Patent
active
053659279
ABSTRACT:
A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system for use in a medical procedure employs an open main magnet allowing access to a portion of a patient within an imaging volume, for producing a main magnetic field over the imaging volume; a set of open gradient coils which provide magnetic fields gradients over the imaging volume without restricting access to the imaging volume; a radiofrequency coil set for transmitting RF energy into the imaging volume to nutate nuclear spins within the imaging volume and receive an MR response signal from the nuclear spins; and a pointing device for indicating the position and orientation of a plane in which an image is to be acquired; an image control means for operating power supplies for the gradient coils and the RF coils to acquire an MR signal from the desired imaging plane; and a computation unit for constructing an image of the desired imaging plane. The MR imaging system is intended to operate to provide images to a physician during medical procedures to guide the physician in his procedures.
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Barber William D.
Blumenfeld Samuel M.
Cline Harvey E.
Darrow Robert D.
Dumoulin Charles L.
General Electric Company
Smith Ruth S.
Snyder Marvin
Zale Lawrence P.
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