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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2015
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Stephan Biber, Erlangen, DE;
Ralf Ladebeck, Erlangen, DE;
Kuan Jin Lee, Singapore, SG;
Sebastian Martius, Forchheim, DE;
Elisabeth Weiland, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A shim coil device for compensating for basic magnetic field inhomogeneities during medical magnetic resonance imaging of a breast of a patient, said shim coil has a housing with a contact surface that configures to bear against a patient, and at least one shim coil element having a shim coil axis. The shim coil is arranged on the patient such that the at least one shim coil axis has an angle of inclination α to the contact surface and/or to a patient surface, where α is ≥45° and α is ≤135°.