Patent ID: 7221159

Claim:
A system of communicating for an injection system for use within a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite, said MRI suite having a scanner room, a control room and a barrier separating said scanner and said control rooms, said system comprising: (a) a first transceiver situated within said scanner room in an injection control unit of said injection system; (b) a second transceiver situated within said control room in a controller of said injection system; (c) a first antenna positioned within said scanner room approximate an interior side of said barrier, said first antenna being capable of receiving from and transmitting to said first transceiver; and (d) a second antenna positioned within said control room approximate an exterior side of said barrier, said second antenna being capable of receiving from and transmitting to said second transceiver; wherein said first and said second antennas are interconnected through said barrier to form an antenna coupling thus enabling said controller and said injection control unit to communicate therethrough across said barrier using a desired range of radio frequencies outside a range of, and without adversely affecting, operation of said MRI suite.