PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952130
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["324", "309000"]

Abstract:
A metamaterial liner for an MRI bore. The metamaterial liner may cover only a portion of the MRI bore, allowing travelling wave excitations within the lined portion. By restricting the waves to the lined portion, improved signal to noise ratio may be provided. The lined length may be adjustable, for example by forming the metamaterial liner of removable annular segments. A method is provided of adjusting the length of the lined portion by removing metamaterial segments. The segments may be included in interchangeable modules. The MRI liner is suitable for any magnetic field strength, and in particular may provide improved signal to noise at reduced technical difficulty at magnetic field strengths between conventional field strengths suitable for a birdcage coil and conventional travelling wave field strengths.

Claim (Index 12):
The liner of  claim 10  in which the static magnetic field of the MRI scanner has a strength of greater than 1.5 Tesla and less than 7 Tesla.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 64.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07576
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13757459', '14932539', '12613004', '12753138', '14397754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5629165851619372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5054944027833866
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5571743669240822
- Mean Citation Score: 180.03626400000005
- Max Citation Score: 256.10022000000004
- Similarity Product: 160.83109618082287

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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