| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7548063 |
Detuning of an RF shielded MRI scan room |
June 16, 2009 |
| The present invention relates to a system and method magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Furthermore the invention relates to the use of a material and to a computer program. In order to provide a technique which allows to prevent standing waves in an RF cage (3) of a MR imaging system (1) |
| 7508207 |
Magnetic resonance imaging device with sound-absorbing means |
March 24, 2009 |
| The invention provides a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device (21), comprising a diagnostic space (25), a main magnetic system (22) for generating a main magnetic field in said diagnostic space, a gradient magnetic coil system (23) comprising a gradient coil for generating at leas |
| 7400146 |
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus with reduced noise production |
July 15, 2008 |
| The invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI apparatus comprising a main magnetic system for generating a main magnetic field in an examination volume which is enclosed by the main magnetic system. The MRI apparatus also comprises a magnetic gradient coil system comprising |
| 7372265 |
Compensation of magnetic field disturbances due to vibrations in an MRI system |
May 13, 2008 |
| A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes an examination volume (9), a main magnet system (17) for generating a main magnetic field (B.sub.0) in the examination volume, a gradient magnet system (25) for generating gradients of the main magnetic field, and a control system (3 |
| 7370789 |
Variable field-of-view gradient coil system for magnetic resonance imaging |
May 13, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to a gradient coil system for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system comprising such a gradient coil system. Magnetic resonance imaging systems comprise at least a main magnet system, a gradient coil system, |
| 7292036 |
MRI system having reduced acoustic noise |
November 6, 2007 |
| A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a gradient coil system. The gradient coil system comprises an inner coil configuration (1,2,3) and an outer coil configuration (4,5,6) positioned substantially coaxially with said inner coil configuration (1,2,3). Both coil configura |
| 7224166 |
MRI system having a gradient magnet system with a gyroscope |
May 29, 2007 |
| The invention relates to an MRI system (1) comprising an examination volume (11), a main magnet system (13) for generating a main magnetic (field (B.sub.0) in the examination volume, a gradient magnet system (19) for generating gradients of the main magnetic field, and an anti-vibrat |
| 7193416 |
Open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnet system |
March 20, 2007 |
| The invention relates to an open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) magnet system (1) for use in a medical imaging system. The open MRI magnet system has two main coil units which are accomodated, at some distance from each other, in a first housing (2) and in a second housing (3), res |
| 7061240 |
Magnetic resonance imaging method with reduced acoustic noise |
June 13, 2006 |
| A magnetic resonance imaging method comprises application of a pulse sequence which includes one or more pulses. The pulse sequence having an intrinsic scan time based on a full sampling rate in k-space for a predetermined full `field-of-view` and a reference temporal pulse shape of |
| 7053616 |
MRI system having a gradient magnet system with a balance member |
May 30, 2006 |
| The invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system (1) comprising an examination volume (11), a main magnet system (13) for generating a main magnetic field (B.sub.0) in the examination volume in a Z-direction, a gradient magnet system (19) for generating gradients of |
| 6998949 |
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system comprising acoustic resonators |
February 14, 2006 |
| The invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system (1) comprising an examination volume (11), a main magnet system (17) for generating a magnetic field (B0) in the examination volume, and a gradient magnet system (25) for generating altering gradients of the magnetic |
| 6822452 |
MRI apparatus |
November 23, 2004 |
| The invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus (1) comprising a gradient coil assembly (3, 4, 5) for generating gradient magnetic fields in an imaging volume, the gradient coil assembly (3, 4, 5) comprising at least three gradient coils (6) for generating three |
| 6759846 |
MR coil module |
July 6, 2004 |
| The invention relates to an MR coil module for use in an MR imaging system for receiving and/or transmitting RF signals. In order to provide an MR coil module which allows a modular and user definable configuration of an RF coil system and which provides a high SENSE factor (>2), the |
| 6628117 |
MR apparatus with a noise reduction system |
September 30, 2003 |
| The invention relates to a medical examination apparatus (1) which includes at least one switchable magnet whose magnetic field can be applied to an organism to be examined in the operating condition. The invention notably relates to an examination apparatus (1) which includes a coil (3) |
| 6538439 |
MRI apparatus including a vacuum isolated gradient coil |
March 25, 2003 |
| A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is provided with a gradient coil system for generating a magnetic gradient field in an imaging volume of the apparatus, the gradient coil system being arranged in a space providing isolation by means of vacuum, and also with an RF coil for gener |
