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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1988
Norbert Krause, Heroldsbach, DE;
Hermann Requardt, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Abstract
A surface coil for a nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus has a number of conductor sections arranged relative to each other. Switches are provided to connect the conductor sections in different combinations. Each combination outlines a differently sized area, or a different region, of the patient. The switches also connect the combination of conductor sections which is to be utilized to a tuning circuit. A single surface coil can thus be used to examine different regions of a patient without the coil having to be physically displaced. The different combinations of conductor sections, which connected, may form a rectangle which is adjacent to, or overlaps, a rectangle of unconnected sections.