Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg

Stefan Schonhardt

Andreas Peter

Jan Korvink

A mufti-channel coil array for use as a transceiver in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has a plurality of radio frequency (RF) coils disposed next to one another, devices for electromagnetically decoupling the RF coils and coil elements which are applied onto a planar carrier element (). The carrier elements () have a regular, equilateral polygonal outer contour and the shape of the individual coils () corresponds to the outer contour of the carrier element (). An individual coil () has a loop-shaped structure (), which leads to a decoupling of individual coils () not immediately adjacent to each other when a plurality of individual elements are arranged. The space requirement for adding new coils is reduced, and the modular design makes it possible to easily implement any three-dimensional or two-dimensional shape.

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Stefan Schonhardt