MR-coil housing with spacer shaped to maintain an anatomy receiving space from the MRI bore wall

A coil housing for a magnetic resonance (“MR”) imaging apparatus, comprising:

• an anatomy receiving space defined by the coil housing, shaped and sized to receive at least a portion of a patient's anatomy to be imaged;
• a spacer shaped to maintain the anatomy receiving space a first distance from a bore wall of the MR imaging apparatus, the first distance defining an imaging area of the MR imaging apparatus, and
• an outer wall and an inner wall with an interior space between the outer wall and inner wall, the outer wall defining a central side which, when the housing is in use, faces a center of a bore of the MR imaging apparatus and a lateral side which, when the housing is in use, faces the bore wall of the MR imaging apparatus, the spacer being formed by a portion of the lateral side of the outer wall shaped to expand, by a first distance, a spacing between the inner wall and the portion of the lateral side of the outer wall relative to a space between the inner wall and the central side of the outer wall;
• and
• wherein the anatomy receiving space is substantially deltoid in shape and where a radius of curvature of the central side of the outer wall is larger than a radius of curvature of the lateral side of the outer wall.