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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2020
Quality Electrodynamics, Llc, Mayfield Village, OH (US);
Xiaoyu Yang, Indiana, PA (US);
Tsinghua Zheng, Chesterland, OH (US);
Quality Electrodynamics, LLC, Mayfield Village, OH (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to MRI coils with a reduced number of baluns. One example embodiment is a MRI coil comprising: a plurality of coil elements in one or more groups of coil elements, wherein each group of coil elements comprises at least two coil elements and a shared trace comprising portions of associated traces of each coil element of that group RF shorted together, and wherein, for each coil element of that group, the shared trace of the group is RF shorted to a shield of an associated coaxial cable for that coil element; and one or more baluns, wherein, for each group of coil elements, at least one balun of the one or more baluns is configured to mitigate leakage current on the coaxial cable of each coil element of that group of coil elements.