ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,877, issued on April 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Yukinobu Imamura (Kashiwa, Japan), Shinichiro Suzuki (Kashiwa, Japan) and Hideta Habara (Kashiwa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To suppress eddy current generation by a gradient magnetic field while an RF shield has a function of reducing magnetic coupling of an RF coil with a gradient magnetic coil, the RF shield must be formed of a conductive material of a tiled or slitted strip-shaped thin plate. On the other hand, cooling must be performed to suppress temperature rise due to heat generation by the eddy cur...