INTERACTIVE MRI SYSTEM

• US 20100234722A1
• Filed: 06/18/2009
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: K-Space LLC
• Original Assignee: K-Space LLC
• Inventors: Trcka, Milan, Heller, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US12/487,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20100234722A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/410
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/283 Intercom or optical viewing arrangements, structurally associated with NMR apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0154 with movable elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/344 with head-mounted left-right displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/366 using viewer tracking

Abstract

An MRI system for administering MRI to subjects, and for also providing video and sound to the subjects, and for receiving responses from the subjects. The system includes a sound suppression circuit for suppressing sound emanating from an MRI device. A preferred visual display for use by a subject comprises left and right displays and distance adjusting means for adjusting the distance between the left and right displays. Also preferably comprising LED for receiving video input and transmitting video images through a prism optics to a subject, and a second adjusted means for adjusting the distance between the prism and the LED.

Claims

1. A visual display for use by a subject in an MRI, the video display comprising left and right displays and distance adjustment means for adjusting the distance between the left and right displays, each display comprising:

a) an OLED for receiving the video input and transmitting video images; and

b) a prism receiving the video images from the OLED.

2. An MRI system for administering MRI to subjects, the MRI system comprising:

d) an MRI device for use in an MRI room;

e) a control room external to the MRI room;

f) a shielded interface unit in the MRI room for receiving a video input and an audio input and control signals from the control room, and for receiving subject generated sound input and subject generated control input;

g) a visual display for receiving from the interface unit the video input and for displaying to the subject in the MRI room visual images;

h) a sound suppression circuit in the interface unit for suppressing sound emanating from the MRI device by generating a sound suppression signal;

i) a sound transmission system for providing sound to the subject in the MRI room, wherein the sound transmission system receives the audio input and the sound suppression signal from the interface unit;

e) a microphone system in the MRI room for receiving subject generated sound for transmission to the interface unit as subject generated sound input;

f) a subject controllable input device in the MRI room for providing subject inputs to the interface unit; and

g) a subject monitor receiver in the interface unit for receiving physiological information about a subject.