Mri Devices Corp.

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Thomas E Schubert

David A Molyneaux

G Randy Duensing

Scott B King

S Uli Gotshal

Alan Holland

Ashok Menon

John M Procarione

Two halves of a separable wrist coil provide a coil volume closely conforming to a patient's hand yet separable for insertion and removal of the hand. The halves are hinged allowing easy one-handed operation of the coil in which an operator may stabilize the patient's hand within a propositioned coil with one hand while closing the coil and locking it in position with the other. Detents and a manual lock assist in this process.

Wrist coil for magnetic resonance imaging

The subject invention pertains to a method and apparatus for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging. The subject method and apparatus are advantageous with respect to the use of RF coils for receiving signals in NMR scanners. The subject invention can utilize multiple coils to, for example, improve the signal to noise, increase the coverage area, and/or reduce the acquisition time. The use of multiple smaller surface or volume coils to receive NMR signals from the sample can increase the signal to noise ratio compared to a larger coil that has the same field of view and coverage area.

Method and apparatus for NMR imaging with RF crossed ellipse coils

Method and apparatus for NMR imaging

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Delafield, WI, United States of America

Thomas E Schubert