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Interventional MR imaging with detection and display of device position

  • US 6,961,608 B2
  • Filed: 06/04/2001
  • Issued: 11/01/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A magnetic resonance imaging system for interventional MRI involving an operation to insert a device into an object, the device having a tip and being gradually inserted into the object from the tip thereof, comprising:

  • detection means for detecting a position of a tip of the device within the object; and

    movement state display means for displaying information in relation to a movement state of the tip of the device on the basis of data indicative of the position of the tip detected by the detection means;

    wherein the movement state display means includes production means for producing, as the information in relation to the movement state, movement locus data indicative of an inserted part of the device from the data indicative of the position of the tip detected by the detection means; and

    movement locus display means for displaying the movement locus data produced by the production means.

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