Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080197849 | Magnetic Resonance System Having a Base Body and a Patient Bed and Inductive or Capacitive Signal Transmission - A magnetic resonance system has a base body embodying a magnet system that generates magnetic fields in an excitation region on the base body, a patient bed that is movable in a travel direction through a travel region relative to the base body, the patient bed receiving an examination subject thereon to move the examination subject through the examination region, a local coil that is operable in combination with the magnet system to generate magnetic resonance signals in the examination subject and to detect the magnetic resonance signals resulting therefrom, and an evaluation device that evaluates the magnetic resonance signals detected by the local coil. A base body coupling element, at a predetermined base body location, is connected to the evaluation device. A patient bed coupling element, located at a predetermined patient bed location, is connected to the local coil. The base body and patient bed coupling elements feed the magnetic resonance signals to the evaluation device when, and as long as, the patient bed has moved by a predetermined segment of the travel region. | 08-21-2008 |
20080208036 | Combined radiation therapy and magnetic resonance unit - The invention relates to a combined radiation therapy and magnetic resonance unit. For this purpose, in accordance with the invention a combined radiation therapy and magnetic resonance unit is provided comprising a magnetic resonance diagnosis part with an interior, which is limited in radial direction by a main magnet, and a radiation therapy part for the irradiation of an irradiation area within the interior, wherein at least parts of the radiation therapy part, which comprise a beam deflection arrangement, are arranged within the interior. | 08-28-2008 |
20080231282 | On-coil switched mode amplifier for parallel transmission in MRI - Example systems, apparatus, circuits, and so on described herein concern parallel transmission in MRI. One example apparatus includes at least two field effect transistors (FETs) that are connected by a coil that includes an LC (inductance-capacitance) leg. The apparatus includes a controller that inputs a digital signal to the FETs to control the production of an output analog radio frequency (RF) signal. The LC leg is to selectively alter the output analog RF signal and the analog RF signal is used in parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) transmission. | 09-25-2008 |
20080315881 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A MAGNETIC RESONANCE EXAMINATION - A magnetic resonance apparatus has a basic field magnet that generates a basic magnetic field with a homogeneity region of the basic magnetic field in which the basic magnetic field is homogeneous and with a maximum real measurement volume contained in the homogeneity region. The apparatus has a movable patient bed and a control unit that controls the movable patient bed. The maximum measurement volume thereby exhibits a cylindrical shape. A virtual total measurement volume that is greater than the maximum real cylindrical measurement volume can be generated by the control unit together with the movable patient bed. | 12-25-2008 |
20090315556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRICALLY CONTACTING LOCAL COILS WITH A SIGNAL PROCESSOR REMOTE THEREFROM IN A MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER - In a contacting system and method for contacting magnetic resonance local coils with a unit for additional signal processing of a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, a number of coil coupler elements are electrically connected with the magnetic resonance local coils and apparatus coupler elements are mounted at the magnetic resonance tomograph, and are electrically connected with a unit for signal processing. The coil coupler elements and the apparatus coupler elements are fashioned so that, given a movement of the local coils along a movement path in the magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, a successive contacting of at least a portion of the coil coupler elements with apparatus coupler elements ensues at least over a specific path segment of the movement. | 12-24-2009 |
20100052678 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO GENERATE A MEASUREMENT SEQUENCE FOR OPERATING A MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM THAT IS ADAPTED TO THE TIME RASTER OF THE SYSTEM - In a method for producing a time raster-adapted measurement sequence that can be executed directly in the time raster of a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner, for a measurement sequence composed of a series of time slices that in their entirety represent the measurement sequence, the predetermined time slices are not necessarily of a suitable length in order to be directly translated into the time raster of the MR scanner. The method according to the invention produces this conversion automatically and additionally ensures that global properties of the measurement sequence are maintained. The method simplifies the programming of measurement sequences for MR. Moreover, the method is a requirement for the direct use of timing values determined by a solver. The method can be executed by a computerized device and can be implemented in the form of programming instructions encoded in a computer-readable medium. | 03-04-2010 |
20100061511 | Modulatable Radiation Collimator - The invention specifies a radiation collimator, in particular an x-ray collimator, which can be arranged between a radiation source outputting radiation and an object. The radiation collimator includes absorber channels arranged adjacent to one another which form a two-dimensional collimator aperture in the form of a matrix and a first absorber element arranged in the absorber channel. The first absorber element blocks the radiation in a first position and allows the radiation at least partially through the absorber channel in at least one second position. The first absorber element is rod-shaped and can be moved in the absorber channel by a rotation about its longitudinal axis and/or by a longitudinal and/or transverse displacement from the first into the at least one second position. This is advantageous in that the two-dimensional collimator aperture can be modulated easily, rapidly and with high resolution. | 03-11-2010 |
20100090694 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED GENERATION OF A FORMAL DESCRIPTION OF A MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM MEASUREMENT SEQUENCE, USING A SEQUENCE MODEL - A magnetic resonance sequence model that is a formal description of a measurement sequence is used to automate measurement sequence programming. The sequence model allows a system-independent specification of the measurement sequence for execution in a magnetic resonance scanner. The sequence model is as formal as possible; it is limited to the minimum required information for description of a measurement sequence without limiting the flexibility in the sequence programming. A method for formal description of the measurement sequence describes the measurement sequence by a number of parameters to be parameterized. The parameterization of the measurement sequence can ensue automatically from the formalized description of the measurement sequence, except for a set of parameters that are still be determined. For automatic generation of an executable measurement sequence, the method determines the parameters to be determined using a solver, under consideration of boundary conditions, so that a consistent set of parameters is created that completely describes the measurement sequence. This complete description of parameter values of the measurement sequence is then be translated automatically into a programming language that can be directly executed in the magnetic resonance scanner. | 04-15-2010 |