MASK FOR ANALYZED MAMMALS

• US 20140378825A1
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aspect Imaging Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Aspect Imaging Ltd.
• Inventors: RAPOPORT, Uri, RABINOVITZ, Itzchak
• Granted Patent: US 9,820,675 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/415
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61D 3/00 Appliances for supporting or fettering animals for operative purposes fettering in slaughter houses A22B1/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61D 7/04 Devices for anaesthetising animals by gases or vapours; Inhaling devices

Abstract

An encapsulatable life support mechanism (ELSM) for an analyzed animal, including: a cradle or bed adapted by means of size and shape to accommodate the animal; an anesthetization gas mask (AGM) characterized by a cup with conic cross section, comprising a plurality of apertures located at the outer circumference of the cup; a fluid supplying mechanism (FSM) in which the AGM is placed, the FSM is in a continuous fluid communication with (i) an anesthetization gas inlet positioned outside the ELSM and an outlet located within the ELSM; (ii) an air suction scavenging device positioned outside the ELSM and a mask and an air suction outlet located within the ELSM; and a plurality of (iii) air conditioning tubes; and an airtight shell enveloping the same. The airtight ELSM prevent leakage of anesthetization gas.

Claims

1. A mouse handling system (MHS) comprising an encapsulatable life support mechanism (ELSM) for an analyzed animal;

said MHS is an maneuverable elongated device, characterized by a proximal portion, held outside the MRD, comprises at least one inner shaft and at least one outer shaft, said at least one outer shaft telescopically maneuverable along said at least one inner shaft to provide a telescopic mechanism of variable (proximal-) length;

said MHS is further characterized by a distal portion comprising said ELSM, wherein said distal ELSM is rotatable and/or linearly reciprocatable along the main longitudinal axis of said shafts by means of said maneuverable telescopic mechanism of the proximal portion.

2. An MRI-compatible MHS according to claim 1.

3. An MHS according to claim 1, wherein said ELMS, AGN, FSM and mechanisms thereof are adapted by means of size and shape, to ensure anesthetization of animals, especially laboratory animals.

4. An MHS according to claim 2, wherein said ELMS, AGN, FSM and mechanisms thereof are adapted by means of size and shape, to ensure anesthetization of animals, especially laboratory animals.