摘要:
There is provided an MRI apparatus that is capable of imaging ON/OFF in response to a biological gating signal and changing conditions for imaging, even while the moving bed imaging is performed, and further reducing a load on a subject to be examined, which is caused by fluctuations in the bed moving velocity. A controller that controls a bed to transport the examined subject in a static magnetic field and a unit to apply an RF magnetic field and a gradient magnetic field for imaging configures settings so that the bed moving velocity is kept constant considering an entire imaging time, and further controls the magnetic applying unit for applying the RF magnetic field and the gradient magnetic field so that a moving velocity of the FOV (imaging area) in the subject coordinate system is made different from the bed moving velocity.
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In a broadband access network, calls can be kept active even when a telephone network fails. A voice gateway function captures callee telephone number information sent from a caller subscriber telephone to the telephone network and, when the telephone network fails, keeps the call active by retaining the connection between the caller and the callee. Furthermore, when the telephone network fails, the operation mode of the voice gateway and all ONTs is switched from an H.248 gateway mode to an SIP softswitch mode, allowing the voice gateway function to relay communication packets between ONTs and new call connections to be made in the broadband access network.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is provided with a sequencer for executing a rapid imaging sequence of up to 100 ms at a full scan, a parallel measurement system for executing a partial encoding measurement in which the number of phase encoding operations performed for the measurement is reduced, an image processing system for reconstructing images from the information obtained though parallel measurements and composing reconstructed images of a plurality of areas to make one image, a display system for displaying the obtained images at a rate of 50 frame/second or more, and an image renewal system for taking in coordinate information of the cross-section to be imaged from position and pointing devices at intervals of about 0.1 second, and renewing the cross-section to be imaged in real time. Thus, imaging on the cross-sections indicated by a device can be performed in real time with high spatial and high time resolution.
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In a bird cage resonator, the axial length of rungs is changed between orthogonal elements. By doing this, the real view fields of orthogonal ports A and B in the sagittal direction are changed and the sensitivity difference between both view fields is reduced. For an object with an elliptical section to be inspected such as the human body, a remarkable difference in detection sensitivity between each orthogonal ports is eliminated and the receiving sensitivity of MRI apparatus employing the QD method is improved.
摘要:
In an RF probe comprising a resonator and a pickup coil, the pickup coil is an 8-shaped coil, and a center portion of this pickup coil is constituted in such a manner that crossing coils become parallel to each other at the portion. The center portion where the coils of the pickup coil are parallel to each other is so disposed as to extend along, and in the vicinity of, a part of a conductor loop of the resonator.
摘要:
A radiographic image pickup apparatus for diagnosis using an image detector in which a phosphor layer for converting an X-ray image into an optical image, a photoconductive layer for storing an optical image as a latent image, light-emitting means for exciting the photoconductive layer segment by segment are laminated into a plate form, wherein one of the electrodes sandwiching the photoconductive layer and the light-emitting means are respectively divided into array-formed elements in directions orthogonal to each other, and an element selection circuit for successively selecting these elements and reading out said latent image in time sequential electric signal is formed integrally on the substrate of the image detector.
摘要:
Systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging, including adjusting spatial distribution of a rotating magnetic field. By minimizing imaging time, the B1 nonuniformity reducing effect of RF shimming is maximized for an imaging section of an arbitrary axis direction and an arbitrary position. B1 distributions are measured for only several sections of one predetermined direction, and a radio frequency magnetic field condition that maximizes the B1 non-uniformity reducing effect for an imaging section of an arbitrary direction and an arbitrary position is calculated from the B1 distribution data.
摘要:
A technique is provided to reserve large examination space in the tunnel type MRI apparatus, without increasing production cost nor reducing significantly irradiation efficiency and homogeneity in an irradiation distribution within an imaging region. The present invention provides an RF coil unit in which four partial cylindrical coils are placed with a gap therebetween in the circumferential direction inside a cylindrical RF shield, in such a manner that two pairs of the partial cylindrical coils are opposed to each other, and magnetic fields produced by the individual partial cylindrical coils are combined, thereby producing a circularly polarized wave field or an elliptically polarized wave field. The partial cylindrical coil is provided with a partial cylindrical conductor, multiple first conductors substantially parallel with the central axis of the RF shield, multiple capacitors connecting both ends of the first conductors with the partial cylindrical conductor, and a second conductor adjacent to at least one of the ends of the first conductor. The partial cylindrical coils are respectively provided with high frequency signals having a desired amplitude ratio and phase difference, while a reference frequency thereof being identical.
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Image processing techniques which enable various contrast control, by quantitatively handling a degree of phase enhancement in a contrast control as a post-processing of the image reconstruction. A complex operation is performed on each pixel value of a complex image obtained by an MRI, thereby generating an image with desired contrast. Intensity is controlled by increasing or decreasing the argument of the pixel value of each pixel by a constant amount, and the degree of phase enhancement is controlled by multiplying the phase (argument) of each pixel by a constant.
摘要:
An RF coil is provided with a hollow-shaped outer conductive element and strip-shaped conductive elements disposed along the outer conductive element in the axial direction. The strip-shaped conductive elements are disposed with uneven intervals to secure an internal space at a position where the strip-shaped conductive elements are not disposed. In order to obtain uniform sensitivity at the center section of the RF coil, the strip-shaped conductive elements and the outer conductive element are electrically connected via capacitors of which capacitances are adjusted so that a magnetic field component perpendicular to the center axis should be generated at a desired resonance frequency, and the strip-shaped conductive elements are axisymmetrically disposed with respect to the center axis of the outer conductive element. As a result, a comfortable examination space in a tunnel type MRI apparatus is achieved without increasing the manufacturing cost of the MRI apparatus.