Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Walter Popp

Markus Vester

Peter Feld

Norbert Rietsch

Ralph Meissner

Karl-Ulrich Erlenkamp

An anti-interference filter for radio-shielding a feeder to a gradient coil in a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus is constructed as a band elimination (band rejection) filter for the operating frequency of the nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus. The anti-interference filter can be in the form of a directionally symmetrical quadrupole having two input terminals and two output terminals. A first input terminal and a first output terminal are introducible into the feeder to the gradient coil, and a second input terminal and a second output terminal are connected to a conductor at reference potential. A number of blocking circuits are arranged in series between the first input terminal and the first output terminal. A number acceptor circuits are arranged between the input terminals, between the junctions of the blocking circuits and the reference potential conductor, and between the output terminals. The number of acceptor circuits is one more than the number of blocking circuits.

Anti-interference filter for a gradient coil in a nuclear magnetic

A tomography apparatus utilizing nuclear magnetic resonance techniques for representing internal cross-sections of an examination subject has a surface coil for acquiring a signal corresponding to the displacement of the nuclear spins of the examination subject from a equilibrium position. The surface coil is annular and has its ends connected to ground through respective capacitances. A tape-shaped high-frequency shielding at least partially surrounds the surface coil.

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Emskirchen, Germany

Walter Popp