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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Zhiyong Zhai, Gainesville, FL (US);
Paul Royston Harvey, Best, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An ultra-high field radio-frequency (RF) transmit/receive apparatus radio-frequency (RF) transmit/receive apparatus for magnetic resonance (MR) systems, may include: a dipole-array based volume coil () with a plurality of straight dipole antennas (); at least three circular conducting rings () radial surrounding the dipole-array based volume coil (), the at least three circular conducting rings () being substantially parallel with each other, having a plurality of ports () for receiving a set of quadrature drive signals, the RF coil apparatus further comprising at least two independent transmit/receive (T/R) RF channels () for driving the dipole-array based volume coil () and the at least three circular conducting rings ().