Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100156420 | LOCAL COIL ARRANGEMENT FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPLICATIONS AND PATIENT BED FOR A MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM, WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRICAL INTERFACES - A local coil arrangement for magnetic resonance applications has a mechanically dimensionally stable bearing element. A patient bed for a magnetic resonance system has a support surface to support a patient. In operation, the supporting element rests on the patient bed. In this state, it transfers the weight of the local coil arrangement to the patient bed. The local coil arrangement has at least one local coil to excite and/or to receive magnetic resonance signals. Furthermore, it has a multipole, prefabricated electrical interface via which the local coil can be electrically contacted. The electrical interface is arranged so as to be dimensionally stable at the bearing element. Positioning aids for the positioning of the local coil arrangement are arranged on the support surface. In the region of the positioning aids, a multipole, prefabricated electrical counter-interface is arranged so as to be mechanically dimensionally stable. By a corresponding positioning of the supporting element on the support surface of the patient bed, the weight of the local coil arrangement is transferred to the patient bed and the electrical interface is mechanically and electrically plugged into the electrical counter-interface. | 06-24-2010 |
20100271027 | ADAPTER TO CONNECT A LOCAL COIL IN A MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM - A simple connection of a coil with a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) is facilitated by a method and an adapter wherein a coil-connection element of at least one local coil is connected with an MRT-connection element of an MRT system. The adapter has a coil-connection element adapter designed to form a connection with at least one coil-connection element of at least one local coil. The adapter also has at least one MRT-connection element adapter designed to form a connection with an MRT-connection element of an MRT system. The adapter can be fixed mechanically to a fixing element of the MRT system. | 10-28-2010 |
20110037470 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE SURFACE COIL - A plug block module for a surface coil for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus has a plug block body with contacts for connection lines that can be connected with a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, an adapter plug that can be inserted into an adapter plug of the surface coil, a surface coil connector device that fixes the plug block module to the surface coil, and a connection between the plug block and the adapter plug. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040174 | HEAD COIL FOR A MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS WITH INTERCHANGEABLE OPERATING ELEMENTS - An assembly for mounting and unmounting a surface coil of a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus includes an upper part, a lower part, a locking element to fix the upper part and the lower part to one another, and contact elements at the upper part and at the lower part. The contact elements at the upper part can be brought into an electrically conductive connection with contact elements at the lower part and the upper part and the lower part can be fixed to one another by a movement of the locking element. | 02-17-2011 |
20110260728 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE COIL DEVICE - A combined head and nape magnetic-resonance coil device for a magnetic-resonance examination using a magnetic-resonance device, includes at least one posterior coil unit and at least two anterior coil units. At least one anterior coil unit of the at least two anterior coil units is mounted in relation to the posterior coil unit such that the at least one anterior coil unit may move along at least one direction of a spacing between the posterior coil unit and the at least one anterior coil unit. | 10-27-2011 |
20110279119 | COMBINABLE MULTIPART SURFACE COIL FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY - The present embodiments relate to a local coil system for use in a magnetic resonance tomography system. The local coil system includes a local coil lower part and a plurality of mutually different local coil upper parts. Each local coil upper part of the plurality is connectable to the local coil lower part to form a local coil. | 11-17-2011 |
20120153956 | MR COIL WITH MOVABLE ANTENNA ELEMENTS - The present embodiments relate to a local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system. The local coil includes at least one coil element having an antenna. The at least one coil element is movable relative to a housing of the local coil. | 06-21-2012 |
20120182015 | DRUM-TYPE STANDING WAVE TRAP - A standing wave trap for a magnetic resonance tomography system includes a local coil connecting lead and at least one flexible printed circuit board in the local coil connecting lead. The local coil connecting lead is wound. | 07-19-2012 |
20120249142 | LOCAL COIL - A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system includes a housing with a recess for an object under examination. The local coil also includes a radio-frequency receive antenna system and one or more shim elements for homogenization of a static basic magnetic field of the magnetic resonance tomography system. | 10-04-2012 |
20120256633 | RECEIVING COIL AND LOCAL COIL FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPLICATIONS - A local coil for magnetic resonance applications includes a rigid housing that radially surrounds a substantially cylindrical examination volume. Arranged in the rigid housing is a transmitting coil, by which an excitation signal may be applied to the examination volume. An object to be examined arranged in the examination volume may be excited by the excitation signal for emitting a magnetic resonance signal. The local coil includes a size-variable structure, in which an antenna assembly for receiving the magnetic resonance signal emitted by the object to be examined is arranged. The size-variable structure is arranged in the examination volume and is connected to the rigid housing. The size-variable structure is soft and flexible. | 10-11-2012 |
20120280689 | RETAINING CLIP FOR PLUGGABLE ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS - A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system includes a mainboard, at least one plug-in module that is connectable to the mainboard, and a clip engaging with the plug-in module and the mainboard. The clip is arranged at least partially at a side of the mainboard. | 11-08-2012 |
20120283550 | HEAD SUPPORT CUSHION WITH INTEGRATING PATIENT POSITIONING SYSTEM - A local coil for an imaging system includes a support cushion including a volume filled with a fluid. | 11-08-2012 |
20120286784 | SIZE-ADJUSTABLE HEAD/NECK MR SURFACE COIL WITH HINGED UPPER SECTION - A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system includes an upper section and a lower section. The upper section is hingeable in relation to the lower section. | 11-15-2012 |
20130023756 | ADAPTER FOR A DIRECT-CONNECTION HEAD COIL WITH ADJUSTABLE TILT ANGLE - An adapter for a local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography device is provided. The adapter is placeable on a patient support for the magnetic resonance tomography device. The adapter includes an adapter upper part that is removably connectable to the local coil. The adapter also includes an adapter lower part that is removably connectable to the patient support. The adapter also includes a tilt device, by which the adapter upper part is movable relative to the adapter lower part. | 01-24-2013 |
20130074263 | MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE - A medical imaging device is provided. The medical imaging device has a detector unit, a receiving area for receiving a patient for the purposes of a medical imaging examination, and a patient table. The receiving area is cylindrically surrounded by the detector unit. The medical imaging device has at least one deposit unit which can be attached to the patient table. | 03-28-2013 |
20130119988 | Local Coil - A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography device includes a plurality of antenna elements. Each antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements has two conductor tracks. The conductor tracks are disposed on opposite sides of an insulator and are connected electrically conductively to one another by plated through-holes through the insulator. In areas, in which conductor tracks of at least two antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements cross, at least one antenna element of the at least two antenna elements only has a conductor track on one side of the insulator. | 05-16-2013 |
20130184563 | DIRECT CONNECTION HEAD COIL HAVING HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT - A head coil for a magnetic resonance tomography device includes a lower part and an upper part that may be positioned above the lower part. The lower part has a lower part base that may be placed on a patient couch for the magnetic resonance tomography device and a lower part resting part that is moveable relative to the lower part base. | 07-18-2013 |
20130192875 | Body Coil for Magnetic-Resonance Imaging - A body coil for magnetic-resonance imaging includes at least one coil component. A movable lead terminated by a plug is provided on the at least one coil component. A retaining element having an oblong opening, through which the movable lead or a plug section is passed and within which the movable lead or the plug section is movable longitudinally, is provided on the at least one coil component. | 08-01-2013 |
20130211237 | Body Coil for Magnetic Resonance Imaging - A body coil for magnetic resonance imaging includes one or more coil elements incorporated in a shell material. The body coil has a rectangular basic shape. Two opposing edge sections of the body coil may be pivoted along one pivot axis, respectively, relative to a middle section. For this purpose, movement elements that effect pivoting are arranged on an edge section side. | 08-15-2013 |
20130241557 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE COIL WITH OVERLAPPING COIL ELEMENTS - A magnetic resonance coil for transmitting and/or receiving magnetic resonance signals is provided. The magnetic resonance coil includes at least two overlapping coil elements. Coil conductors of the at least two overlapping coil elements intersect in intersection regions and are arranged on a support. Mutually overlapping coil elements of the at least two overlapping coil elements are arranged on different sides of the support. The support is formed from at least three layers of a support material. A cavity that is filled with air or a filler material, the dielectric constant of the filler material being lower than the dielectric constant of the support material, is provided in the intersection regions in a middle layer of the at least three layers. | 09-19-2013 |
20140039301 | MR Surface Coil with Integrated Automatic Patient Immobilization - A magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) local coil includes at least two parts that may be moved relative to one another. At least one part of the at least two parts has elements that, in a closed state of the MRT local coil, presses directly or via pressure elements on at least one closed volume area in another part of the at least two parts. The at least one closed volume area is displaced by this in the closed state of the local coil into a coil interior space inside the local coil until the closed volume area rests against a patient. | 02-06-2014 |
20150031984 | Magnetic Resonance Device having a Projection Unit - The embodiments include a magnetic resonance device having a head antenna unit configured for acquiring magnetic resonance signals, and a projection unit that has a presentation surface unit for presenting picture elements and a first projection surface unit for presenting a projection of the picture elements. The first projection surface unit has a center and the presentation surface unit has a center, where the center of the first projection surface unit defines an axis together with the center of the presentation surface unit. The projection unit has a second projection surface unit, a first mirror plane for projecting a picture element onto the second projection surface unit and a second mirror plane for projecting a picture element onto the first projection surface unit, the axis intersecting a normal vector of the first mirror plane and/or a normal vector of the second mirror plane. | 01-29-2015 |
20150057527 | Head-Neck Coil with Tilting Function - A local coil for a magnetic resonance imaging system has a head part and a neck part. The head part is tiltable in a tilting movement. The neck part is movable relative to the head part for compensation of the tilting movement. The local coil is a head-neck local coil. | 02-26-2015 |
20150057528 | Head/Neck Local Coil with a Neck Region with Automatic Size Adjustment when Tilting the Head/Neck Local Coil - A head/neck local coil for an imaging magnetic resonance imaging system includes a head/neck local coil lower part that is tiltable with a tilting movement. The head/neck local coil also includes a neck part movable relative to the head/neck local coil lower part for compensating the tilting movement. | 02-26-2015 |
20150059093 | Positioning Apparatus - A positioning apparatus configured to actively assist the support, positioning, or support and positioning of a patient on a patient support apparatus is provided. The positioning apparatus includes a sliding bearing unit to allow the positioning apparatus to be supported in a movable manner on the patient support apparatus, and a bearing unit with at least two bearing regions. At least a first of the at least two bearing regions is configured to support and/or provide support on the patient support apparatus, and at least a second of the at least two bearing regions is configured to assist the positioning of the patient. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061679 | Patient Support Apparatus - A patient support apparatus configured to support a patient is provided. The patient support apparatus includes a table having a support surface to support the patient. The table includes a patient support assistance unit with at least one handle element. | 03-05-2015 |
20150065852 | Local Coil and Leveling Mirror - The embodiments relate to a local coil arrangement for an imaging MRI system, where the system is a head local coil or a head/neck local coil, which includes a mirror housing that is mounted in a rotatable manner on the local coil arrangement. | 03-05-2015 |
20150065863 | Positioning Apparatus, Patient Support Apparatus, and Medical Imaging Apparatus - The embodiments are based on a positioning apparatus designed to provide assistance by supporting and/or positioning a patient on a patient support apparatus. The patient support apparatus includes a bearing unit to hold the patient and a fastening unit. The fastening unit is designed to fasten the positioning apparatus to the patient support apparatus. The bearing unit includes at least two bearing regions, where it is possible to set a position of the first bearing region in relation to a position of the at least one second bearing region. | 03-05-2015 |