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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
May. 22, 1998
Michael Sellers, Thakeham, GB;
Johann Schuster, Oberasbach, DE;
Thomas Carlberger, Sjuntrop, SE;
Franz Boemmel, Erlangen, DE;
Heinz Hentzelt, Erlangen, DE;
Ludwig Hartmann, Rieden, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A nuclear magnetic resonance tomography apparatus has a magnet assembly with a first surface and a gradient coil assembly with a second surface, with an annular gap between these surfaces. A noise-reduction arrangement for damping the oscillations of the gradient coil assembly and/or for stiffening the gradient coil assembly is disposed in this gap in contact with the first and second surfaces. The noise-reducing arrangement can be composed of one or more components, and has contact surfaces, formed by one or more components, respectively in substantially surface-wide contact with the first and second surfaces of the tomography apparatus.