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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2010
Filips Van Liere, Eindhoven, NL;
Filips Van Liere, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to direct digital receiver for an RF coil (), in particular of a magnetic resonance imaging system (), for providing a digital sample output signal at a digital operating frequency in a time base of a system clock (), the receiver comprising: —an analogue-to-digital converter () for converting an analogue signal received from the RF coil () to a digital sample input signal, the analogue-to-digital converter () being driven by a local clock, a local clock oscillator () adapted for providing the local clock in a local clock time base to the analogue-to-digital converter (), the local clock time base being independent of the system clock time base, a phase detector () adapted for determining a phase difference () between the system clock () and the local clock, a resampling unit () adapted for resampling the digital sample input signal to the digital sample output signal using said phase difference ().