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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Victor Taracila, Beachwood, OH (US);
Balint Franko, Streetsboro, OH (US);
Mark Giancola, Chesterland, OH (US);
Yun-Jeong Stickle, Solon, OH (US);
Clyve Konrad Rosales Follante, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Fraser John Laing Robb, Aurora, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Various systems are provided for neck radio frequency (RF) coil assemblies for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. In one example, a neck RF coil assembly includes a central RF coil array including a first plurality of RF coils configured to cover a neck of a subject to be imaged, an upper RF coil array including a second plurality of RF coils extending upward from the central RF coil array and configured to cover a lower head region of the subject, and a lower RF coil array including a third plurality of RF coils extending downward from the central RF coil array and configured to cover an upper shoulder region of the subject, wherein each RF coil of the first, second, and third pluralities of RF coils comprises a loop portion comprising two distributed capacitance wire conductors encapsulated and separated by a dielectric material.