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Dual lower extremity MRI coil array with simultaneously independent MRI signal detection from both legs

US7999548B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 26, 2009
Grant dateAug 16, 2011
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Expiry dateOct 28, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01R33/34069
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging of the lower extremities using a coil array having sections of decoupled coil elements that enclose, bilaterally and separately, both legs at the same longitudinal region along the cranial-caudal direction.

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