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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2010
Qiyuan MA, Milburn, NJ (US);
Erzhen Gao, Milburn, NJ (US);
Qiyuan Ma, Milburn, NJ (US);
Erzhen Gao, Milburn, NJ (US);
Time Medical Holdings Company Limited, George Town, KY;
Abstract
A superconducting RF coil array which may be used in whole body MRI scanners and/or in dedicated MRI systems. Some embodiments provide a superconducting RF coil array for at least one of receiving signals from and transmitting signals to a sample during magnetic resonance analysis of the sample, the superconducting RF coil array comprising a thermally conductive member configured to be cryogenically cooled, and a plurality of coils elements comprising superconducting material, wherein each coil element is thermally coupled to the thermally conductive member and is configured for at least one of (i) receiving a magnetic resonance signal from a spatial region that is contiguous with and/or overlaps a spatial region from which at least one other of the plurality of coil elements is configured to receive a signal and (ii) transmitting a radiofrequency signal to a spatial region that is contiguous with and/or overlaps a spatial region to which at least one other of the plurality coil elements is configured to transmit a radiofrequency signal.