Sample holding device, in particular for holding a rodent or an MR phantom in an MRT device

US8334698B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US
• Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Roland Tammer · Bovenden, DE
• Susann Boretius · Gleichen, DE
• Thomas Michaelis · Leverkusen, DE
• Andreas Pucher-Diehl · Göttingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 1, 2007
• Grant date: Dec 18, 2012
• Expiry date: Jul 28, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/56509
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A sample holding device, adapted for holding a sample, like a rodent or an MR phantom sample in a magnet bore of a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) device, comprises a sample carrier being adapted for an arrangement in the bore of the MRT device, wherein the sample carrier comprises a carrier platform for accommodating the sample and at least one clamping part with radial locking pieces being adapted for fixing the sample carrier in a hollow enclosure structure, wherein the at least one clamping part is connected with the carrier platform. Furthermore, an MRT device and a method of MRT imaging of a sample are described.