Patent ID: 6445185
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: A61B,G01R

Abstract:
A mobile surgical apparatus comprising:a magnet for use in medical magnetic resonance studies comprising a pair of opposed ferromagnetic pole surfaces disposed facing each other and defining therebetween a patient-receiving gap for receiving a patient to be studied by magnetic resonance, a yoke comprised of ferromagnetic material for providing a magnetic flux return circuit for magnetic flux which passes from one pole surface to the other through the patient-receiving gap, said magnet generating magnetic flux flowing from one to the other of said pole surfaces through the patient-receiving gap; a vehicular body having therein an operating room for providing a space in which to perform surgical treatment upon patients; said operating room having therein facilities necessary for carrying out surgical treatments; said magnet being installed within said vehicular body with said pole surfaces within said operating room, whereby said magnet can be used for the purpose of providing MR scans to enable scans to enable MR guided surgery.