Patent ID: 7647649
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A single unitary positioning device comprising: a body-worn article that is configured to be worn by and removed from each of a plurality of patients and that is differently configurable for multiple use by each of said plurality of patients; said body-worn article including an anatomical indicator, permanently built into said body-worn article, that, for each patient, among the plurality of patients, wearing the body-worn article indicates the position of an anatomical area of that patient and thereby causes the body-worn article to always be identically positioned on that patient solely by that patient donning said body-worn article; said body-worn article having a visually perceivable spatial relation indicator thereon; said body-worn article further having a position indicator that is selectively positionable on said body-worn article with a reproducible spatial relation to said anatomical indicator, by means of said spatial relation indicator, to cause said body-worn article to be positioned on any of the plurality of patients currently wearing the body-worn article with said anatomical area in reproducible relation to an area selected from the group consisting of an examination area of a medical device and a therapy area of a medical therapy device; and said body-worn article having a receptacle containing an antenna arrangement configured for an examination with a magnetic resonance device.