Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Axel Friedrich

Jianmin Wang

Helmut Greim

Ludwig Kreischer

Helmut Lenz

Lennart Kilian

Dirk Schneiderbanger

Daniel Scheit

Christian Plewa

A magnetic resonance apparatus with a safety structure for monitoring a safety-related function is provided. The safety structure includes a control path that is configured to control the safety-related function, and a first protect path and a second protect path. The first protect path and the second protect path are configured to acquire a safety-related parameter of the safety-related function. The first protect path is configured to identify a hazardous situation, independently of the control path and the second protect path, based on the safety-related parameter that the first protect path acquires. The second protect path is configured to identify a hazardous situation, independently of the control path and the first protect path, based on the safety-related parameter that the second protect path acquires. The first protect path and the second protect path are each configured to transfer the magnetic resonance apparatus into a safe state in a hazardous situation.

Safety structure of a magnetic resonance apparatus

An inherently decoupled MR reception coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance imaging tomography system has a number of selectively pluggable local coils, in which the local coils provided with active detuning also have a passive detuning circuit for the transmission phase, and at least one of the local coils has a passive detuning circuit for the reception phase in the unplugged state.

Inherently decoupled magnetic resonance reception coil arrangement

In a radio-frequency receiver unit for a magnetic resonance apparatus, a reception antenna is connected to an input of a noise-matched field-effect transistor preamplifier with a low input impedance. The reception antenna is connected with a detuning stage. The RF receiver unit has a noise suppression stage that can be activated when the reception antenna is detuned.

Radio-frequency receiver unit for a magnetic resonance apparatus

A mammography antenna for magnetic resonance examinations has an examination space with an opening for accepting a female breast, a conductor arrangement for transmitting and/or receiving magnetic high-frequency fields, and a compression arrangement spatially allocated to the conductor arrangement for compressing the breast during the magnetic resonance examination. The compression arrangement includes compression elements movably arranged in a holder part. The conductor arrangement includes first conductor segments that are connected to the compression elements, second conductor segments that are connected to the holder part, and electrical connections that connect the first conductor segments to the second conductor segments and/or connect the first conductor segments to one another.

Mammography antenna for nuclear magnetic resonance examinations

An antenna arrangement for a magnetic resonance apparatus has at least two adjacent individual antennas. Each individual antenna has at least one conductor loop. For mutual decoupling, the conductor loops of the adjacent individual antennas each have an interruption. The interruptions are electrically connected in parallel and are jumpered with at least one capacitive element, the capacitive element having a capacitance value at which the individual antennas are decoupled from one another.

Antenna arrangement for a magnetic resonance apparatus

In a sheath wave barrier, a winding composed of coaxial line is wound in the form of a spiral around an axis. Respective layers of an electrically conductive material that cover both the top and bottom of the spiral winding are respectively disposed at axial spacings from the winding.

Sheath wave barrier

A local antenna system for generating and receiving circularly-polarized, high-frequency magnetic fields in a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus has two coil groups disposed to define an examination volume therebetween, with each coil group having two coils therein, with each coil having a middle axis disposed at an angle substantially less than 90.degree. relative to the middle axis of the other coil in that group. The coil groups are disposed relative to the examination volume so that each coil in a coil group has a diagonally disposed counterpart coil in the other coil group. When the diagonally coils are respectively fed with currents which are phase-shifted by 90.degree. relative to each other, they respectively generate circularly-polarized high-frequency magnetic fields in the examination volume which are in-phase. In a reception mode, the signals induced in the diagonally disposed coils are superimposed in-phase.

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Nuremberg, Germany

Axel Friedrich