Patents by Inventor ERIC TAMAROFF

ERIC TAMAROFF has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRACKING AN INTRACORPOREAL DEVICE WITH MR IMAGING
    Publication number: 20080027310
    Abstract: A system and method for tracking or otherwise determining positioning of an intracorporeal device is provided. The invention includes a device that may be inserted into a subject and tracked based on an imageable tag included with the device. The imageable tag is at least partially formed of a substance whose nuclei precess at a Larmor frequency different than the Larmor frequency of hydrogen when subjected to a polarizing magnetic field. MR data may be acquired from the imageable tag using an RF receiver tuned to the Larmor frequency of the substance and used to track movement of the device within the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Eric Tamaroff, John Pile-Spellman, Lei Feng, Stephen Dashnaw, Robert DeLaPaz
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRACKING AN INTRACORPOREAL DEVICE WITH MR IMAGING
    Publication number: 20070007957
    Abstract: A system and method for tracking or otherwise determining positioning of an intracorporeal device is provided. The invention includes a device that may be inserted into a subject and tracked based on an imageable tag included with the device. The imageable tag is at least partially formed of a substance whose nuclei precess at a Larmor frequency different than the Larmor frequency of hydrogen when subjected to a polarizing magnetic field. MR data may be acquired from the imageable tag using an RF receiver tuned to the Larmor frequency of the substance and used to track movement of the device within the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: ERIC TAMAROFF, John Pile-Spellman, Lei Feng, Stephen Dashnaw, Robert DeLaPaz