Ge Yokogawa Medical Systems, Limited

Kazuhiko Hayaklawa

Osamu Furuta

In order to mitigate the feeling of confinement experienced by a subject (patient) and improve the S/N ratio of an MRI coil when used as a head coil, there is provided an MRI coil,comprising a pair of opposing coils,and,whose coil surfaces face each other with an imaging space interposed, and a quadrature coil,which has a coil surface orthogonal to the coil surfaces of the opposing coils,and,and surrounds the imaging space. When the MRI coil,is used as a head coil, the quadrature coil,is fitted over the eyes of a subject H, and the opposing coils,and,are positioned near the ears of the subject H.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiko Hayaklawa