Device for compression of the neck spine for medical imaging purposes

• US 6,799,569 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2002
• Issued: 10/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Euro Accident MRI Diagnostics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Barbro Danielsson, Jan A.G. Willen, Thomas Nicklasson
• Inventors: Danielsson, Barbro, Willen, Jan A. G., Nicklasson, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US10/161,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20030023158A1
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• Field of Search: 128/97.1, 128/848, 128/857, 128/858, 128/859, 602/32-40, 602/19, 606/130
• US Class Current: 128/97.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/704 Tables
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/0421 with immobilising means

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device for compression of the neck spine for medical imaging purposes, in particular for diagnostic purposes at complementary examination using computed tomography or magnetic resonance tomography, whereby the device comprises a waist arrangement to be placed around and in firm contact with the upper body of a patient, a helmet arrangement to be placed around and in firm contact with the head of the patient, strings connecting said waist arrangement and said helmet arrangement, which strings can be strained independently of each other and comprise each a tension meter to monitor the force by which the strings are stretched.

Claims

1. A device for compression of the neck spine for medical imaging purposes, in particular for diagnostic purposes at complementary examination using computed tomography or magnetic resonance tomography, wherein the device comprises a waist arrangement to be placed around and in firm contact with the upper body of a patient, a helmet arrangement to be placed around and in firm contact with the head of a patient, strings connecting said waist arrangement and said helmet arrangement, which strings can be strained independently of each other and comprise each a tension meter to monitor the force by which the strings are stretched.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein the straining force of the strings is arranged to be regulated manually.

3. A device according to claim 1, wherein the straining force of the strings is arranged to be regulated using a motor.

4. A device according to claim 1, wherein the straining force of the strings is arranged to be regulated using a motor controlled by said tension meters.