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US 9,150,364 B2Granted
Pneumatic sample feedway
OwnerUri Rapoport, Itzchak Rabinovitzinventors
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Abstract
A pneumatic sample feedway that is embeddable into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. The feedway includes: a plurality of capsules enclosing a biological tissue sample; and a conductor pipe connected to a source of a compressed fluid. The pipe receives a train of the capsules and pneumatically forwards the train into the MRI device. The pipe has a proximal terminal that loads the train of capsules into the pipe.
Claims5
A pneumatic sample feedway comprising:
- a conductor pipe connectable to a source of a compressed fluid that propels capsules inside and along a length of the conductor pipe, the conductor pipe having
- a proximal end configured to receive a train of capsules into said pipe, and
- a distal end that is insertable into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device and that includes a capsule receptacle that is adapted and configured to receive the capsules of said train one at a time;
- and
- a catch lock device that is
- (i) operable to lock, upon closing, said train when one of the capsules of said train is received in said capsule receptacle, and
- (ii) operable to unlock, upon opening, so that a next one of the capsules of said train is delivered to and received by said capsule receptacle,
- wherein, said conductor pipe is configured to locate said capsule receptacle at a measurement location in a magnetic field of said MRI device, when said distal end is inserted into said MRI device.
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A pneumatic sample feedway, comprising:
- a pneumatic pipe that propels capsules through the pipe using a compressed fluid, the pipe having
- (i) a proximal end configured to receive a train of capsules into the pipe, and
- (ii) a distal end that is insertable into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device;
- a receptacle at the distal end and that is adapted and configured to receive capsules of the train one at a time and at a measurement position in a magnetic field of the MRI device;
- and
- a catch lock device that is adjacent to the receptacle and that is selectively operable between a closed, locking condition and an open, unlocking condition,
- wherein, the catch lock locks the train of capsules when a capsule is received by the receptacle, and
- wherein, when the catch lock is in the open, unlocked condition, the compressed fluid displaces the train of capsules and a next one of the capsules of the train is fed to the receptacle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.