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Patent No.:

US 8188737 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2008

Mri compatible radio frequency (rf) coil, with each rung of the rf coil containing a plurality of individual parallel wires internally

Applicant:

Saikat Saha, Florence, SC (US);

Inventor:

Saikat Saha, Florence, SC (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorneys:

The Small Patent Law Group

Dean D. Small

Primary Examiner:

Melissa Koval

Assistant Examiner:

Tiffany Fetzner

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A radio frequency (RF) coil for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a plurality of rungs. Each rung includes a plurality of wires positioned parallel to one another. Each wire has a circular cross section and an insulating material disposed around an outside surface of the wire. Using wires with a circular cross-section reduces the eddy currents produced on a rung. As a result, the amount of eddy current produced heating, vibration and acoustic noise is reduced. The plurality of wires also enables a more uniform current distribution along the width of each rung that in turn produces a more uniform excitation field (B1).

Find Patent Forward Citations

Saha, Saikat. (2012). Mri compatible radio frequency (rf) coil, with each rung of the rf coil containing a plurality of individual parallel wires internally (U.S. Patent No. 8188737). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8188737

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