- Patent Title: Head coil system and methods for enhancing and/or optimizing MRI
-
Application No.: US15781405Application Date: 2016-01-27
-
Publication No.: US11435418B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: William Wai-Leung Lau , Alexander Gyles Panther , Gilbert Thevathasan , Mark Tullio Morreale
- Applicant: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.
- Applicant Address: CA Toronto
- Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.
- Current Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Toronto
- International Application: PCT/IB2016/050407 WO 20160127
- International Announcement: WO2017/130025 WO 20170803
- Main IPC: A61B5/055
- IPC: A61B5/055 ; G01R33/34 ; G01R33/36 ; A61B90/16 ; A61B90/00 ; A61B90/14

Abstract:
Optionally adjustable head coil system and methods for enhancing and/or optimizing magnetic resonance imaging, involving a housing, the housing having at least one portion, the at least one portion having a lower portion, an upper portion, and opposing side portions, each at least one portion optionally in movable relation to any other portion for facilitating adjustability, each at least one portion configured to accommodate at least one radio-frequency coil, and the upper and lower portions each optionally configured to overlap and engage the opposing side portions for facilitating decoupling the at least one radio-frequency coil, and a tongue portion optionally in movable relation to any other portion for facilitating adjustability, engageable with the lower portion, and fixably couple-able with a transporter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180356477A1 HEAD COIL SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING AND/OR OPTIMIZING MRI Public/Granted day:2018-12-13
Information query