General Electric Company

Eddy Benjemin Boskamp

Glen Peter Koste

Ronald Dean Watkins

Graeme Colin McKinnon

A system wirelessly supplies electrical power to an RF coil and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for an MRI system. The system supplies power to at least operate the RF coil and ADC without the use of a battery and without use of a wired connection external to the bore of the magnet.

Wireless RF coil power supply

A system and method for transmitting multiple radio frequency (RF) channels via an RF coil assembly are provided. An RF coil assembly having a number of coil elements may be configured to transmit a number of RF channels which is less than the number of coil elements thereof. Some implementations may use signal splitters for some or all of the RF channels to produce driving inputs for each coil element. By using more coil elements than RF channels, various embodiments may exhibit increased power efficiency and improved B1 uniformity.

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Monomonee Falls, WI, United States of America

Eddy Benjemin Boskamp