Electromagnetic body coil with vacuum cushions

US5945827A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. · US
• W.L. Gore & Associates GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Volker Gronauer · Bad Birnbach, DE
• Arne Reykowski · Gainesville, US
• Kamal Vij · Chandler, US
• Peter Friedl · Groß-Umstadt, DE
• Helmut Seigerschmidt · Ellingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 6, 1997
• Grant date: Aug 31, 1999
• Expiry date: May 6, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/34007
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Electromagnetic body coil for magnetic resonance tomographic measurements, whereby the body coil has a three-dimensional coil shape and is assembled from at least two partial coils which are capable of being brought into a state of detachable plug-in connection with one another by means of an electrical plug-in connection arrangement and whereby a first partial coil is located inside a cushion, that serves as a patient resting aid, and the second partial coil is located outside this cushion.