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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2008
Ingmar Graesslin, Boenningstedt, DE;
Peter Boernert, Hamburg, DE;
Peter Vernickel, Hamburg, DE;
Ulrich Katscher, Norderstedt, DE;
Ingmar Graesslin, Boenningstedt, DE;
Peter Boernert, Hamburg, DE;
Peter Vernickel, Hamburg, DE;
Ulrich Katscher, Norderstedt, DE;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A multi-channel RF transmitter arrangement comprising a plurality of RF transmitter elements like RE antennas, antenna elements, coils or coil elements, for generating an RF field, especially for use in a magnetic resonance imaging system for exciting nuclear magnetic resonances, and a method for generating such an RF field wherein the RF transmitter elements are segmented in a plurality of segments at least along the direction of one or more of the main magnetic field of the MRI system, the z-direction or the longitudinal direction.