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Intervivo coil for a nuclear magnetic resonance tomographic apparatus

US4932411A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Peter Fritschy · Bern, CH
Horst Weber · Lüdenscheid, DE
Walter Lorenz · Wuppertal, DE
Otto Pastyr · Sulzburg, DE
Volker Sturm · Wiesloch, DE
Hans-Joachim Zabel · Heidelberg, DE
Reiner Bader · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 18, 1986
Grant date	Jun 12, 1990
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 18, 2006

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/34084
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An intervivo probe for a nuclear magnetic resonance tomographic apparatus has a measuring coil carried at one end of a thin plastic carrier, the coil having a cross-sectional area in the range of approximately a few square millimeters and a length of approximately 10 to 20 mm. The measuring probe is inserted in body organs, such as the brain, liver and kidney by means of cannulae or channels which have been surgically or otherwise inserted in the organ for other purposes.

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