Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus
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Application No.: US17840252Application Date: 2022-06-14
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Publication No.: US12025685B2Publication Date: 2024-07-02
- Inventor: Kengo Goto , Manabu Aoki , Taisuke Takayanagi , Shin Hoshino , Yukinobu Imamura , Hiroyuki Takeuchi , Takeshi Nakayama
- Applicant: FUJIFILM Healthcare Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kashiwa
- Assignee: FUJIFILM Healthcare Corporation
- Current Assignee: FUJIFILM Healthcare Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiba
- Agent Paul Teng
- Priority: JP 21107450 2021.06.29
- Main IPC: H01F6/00
- IPC: H01F6/00 ; G01R33/38 ; G01R33/421

Abstract:
An MRI apparatus equipped with a magnetic shield structure to reduce flux leakage. The MRI apparatus includes: a pair of static magnetic magnets that are disposed on opposite sides of an imaging space; and a pair of gradient coils that are disposed on opposite sides of the imaging space. Each static magnetic magnet has a disk-shaped magnetic material pole 201 and a ring-shaped magnetic material pole 202. Each gradient coil has a first coil 204 that applies a magnetic field gradient in a Z axis direction in an imaging region, and a laminate 301 that shields the disk-shaped magnetic material pole from magnetic flux produced in the first coil. The laminate has a smaller thickness in the Z axis direction on the ring-shaped magnetic material pole side than that in a center portion of the imaging space. A vertical lowest portion of a laminate end portion on the ring-shaped magnetic material pole side of the laminate is in a higher position than a position of a lowest portion of a laminate central portion on the imaging region side of the laminate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220413071A1 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2022-12-29
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