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Shielding apparatus and shielding structures for magnetic resonance imaging and method for operating a magnetic resonance imaging scanner

US8878532B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Thomas Doerr · Berlin, DE
Ingo Weiss · Berlin, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 24, 2011
Grant date	Nov 4, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 1, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/422
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

One or more embodiments of the invention relate to a shielding apparatus for shielding at least one at least partially metallic implant in the body of a patient during an examination by magnetic resonance imaging, which can be attached temporarily on or in the vicinity of the body of the patient and comprises a shielding material, which is suited to attenuate radio frequency alternating electromagnetic fields.

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