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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2010
Andreas Peter, Emmendingen, DE;
Stefan Schonhardt, Freiburg, DE;
Jan Korvink, Karlsruhe, DE;
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Freiburg, DE;
Abstract
A mufti-channel coil array for use as a transceiver in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has a plurality of radio frequency (RF) coils disposed next to one another, devices for electromagnetically decoupling the RF coils and coil elements which are applied onto a planar carrier element (). The carrier elements () have a regular, equilateral polygonal outer contour and the shape of the individual coils () corresponds to the outer contour of the carrier element (). An individual coil () has a loop-shaped structure (), which leads to a decoupling of individual coils () not immediately adjacent to each other when a plurality of individual elements are arranged. The space requirement for adding new coils is reduced, and the modular design makes it possible to easily implement any three-dimensional or two-dimensional shape.