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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2007
Atsushi Ninomiya, Ome, JP;
Yoshimi Kasai, Nagareyama, JP;
Hisaaki Ochi, Kodaira, JP;
Masayoshi Dohata, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Abiko, JP;
Shizuka Nagai, Kashiwa, JP;
Atsushi Ninomiya, Ome, JP;
Yoshimi Kasai, Nagareyama, JP;
Hisaaki Ochi, Kodaira, JP;
Masayoshi Dohata, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Abiko, JP;
Shizuka Nagai, Kashiwa, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a vertical magnetic field MRI apparatus which is capable of speeding up imaging for taking an image of any cross section of a wide area such as a total body, while suppressing increase of the number of channels and maintaining high sensitivity in a deep portion of a subject. A receiver coil unitincorporates a bed coil unitwhose longitudinal direction agrees with a body axis direction of the test object, and an upper coil unitwhich is detachably mounted on the bed coil unit. The bed coil unitis provided with a carrying surfacefor placing the test objectthereon and multiple lower sub-coils arranged in a lower part of the carrying surface, and the upper coil unitis provided with multiple upper sub-coils which are connected to the lower sub-coils. The upper sub-coils are separated into two parts; one arranged in a flexible inner support-covering the installation surfaceand another arranged in a flexible outer support-covering the external side of the inner support-. The upper sub-coils and the lower sub-coils are connected by mounting the upper coil uniton the bed coil unit, thereby forming the multiple types of sub-coils.