Imaging unit
AssigneeMRTechnology, Inc.
InventorsTomoyuki HAISHI, Kazunori ISHIZAWA
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Abstract
The present invention provides an imaging unit which can image small animals inexpensively and with high resolution. The imaging detector 22 of the imaging unit includes gradient magnetic field coils having a pair of bucket-shaped coils 51-53, 61-63 having the bottoms opposed to each other and generating gradient magnetic fields between the par of bucket-shaped coils 51-53, 61-63, and a detection coil 82 accommodated between the pair of bucket-shaped coils 51-53, 61-63, a housing portion 30 provided between the pair of bucket-shaped coils 51-53, 61-63 and housing an object to be imaged, and a detection coil 82 provided in the housing portion 30 and positioned near the housed object to be imaged.
Claims6
An imaging unit comprising an imaging detector,
- the imaging detector comprising:
- gradient magnetic field coils including a pair of bucket-shaped coils having bottoms opposed to each other and generating gradient magnetic fields between the pair of bucket-shaped coils;
- a housing portion provided between the pair of bucket-shaped coils and housing an object to be imaged;
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- a detection coil provided in the housing portion and positioned near the housed object to be imaged.
An imaging unit comprising:
- a static magnetic field magnet generating a static magnetic field in a detection space;
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- an imaging unit comprising an imaging detector comprising:
- gradient magnetic field coils including a pair of bucket-shaped coils having bottoms opposed to each other and generating gradient magnetic fields between the pair of bucket-shaped coils;
- a housing portion provided between the pair of bucket-shaped coils and housing an object to be imaged;
- and a detection coil provided in the housing portion and positioned near the housed object to be imaged,
- the imaging detector of the imaging unit being accommodated in the detection space of the static gradient magnetic field magnet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.