Patent ID: 8655430

Claim:
An apparatus for providing therapy to a patient, said apparatus comprising a therapeutic device having an energy transducer for directing energy towards a selected region of a target within said patient by causing a spatial energy field to exist in said selected region of said target, said spatial energy field causing said selected region of said target to be heated, a housing for enclosing said therapeutic device, a magnetic resonance imaging system for obtaining information representative of an extent of heating at said selected region of said target, a processing system configured to receive and process said information from said magnetic resonance imaging system, said processing system comprising a control module coupled to said energy transducer and being configured to generate, based at least in part on said information, a control signal for controlling application of said spatial energy field, a platform translatable along a first direction, a base member configured to be mechanically coupled to said platform for supporting said patient, said base member comprising a first track extending along said first direction for defining a first pathway for translating said therapeutic device relative to said target, a curved frame mounted on said base member, said curved frame being mounted to slide along said first pathway, said curved frame having an interior wall that faces said patient, said interior wall having formed thereon a second track that defines a second pathway for translating said therapeutic device relative to said patient, wherein said housing is suspended from said second track and extendable radially inward toward said patient, thereby defining a third pathway for translating said therapeutic device relative to said target, said housing being disposed between said second track and said patient, wherein the base member comprises a mechanically separated piece of mat that can be translated relative to the platform, the mat housing MRI receiver coils.