Head coil arrangement with automatically positionable send coil unit
AssigneeSiemens Healthineers AG
InventorsRalph Kimmlingen, Martin Schroeder
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Abstract
A head coil arrangement is for a magnetic resonance tomograph. In an embodiment, the head coil arrangement includes a send coil unit and a receive coil unit. The send coil unit, in the position in which the head coil arrangement is normally used on a patient, is automatically positionable in the longitudinal direction of the patient relative to the head coil arrangement. A further embodiment relates to a magnetic resonance facility comprising the head coil arrangement and a guide element, embodied to transmit a force to a dog. The send coil unit is positionable via the force on the dog.
Claims23
A head coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance facility, the head coil arrangement comprising:
- a receive coil including a first housing;
- and
- a transmission coil including a second housing, the transmission coil configured to be
- automatically positioned by being moved, in a longitudinal direction of a patient, towards the receive coil while the receive coil is stationary from the perspective of the transmission coil, and
- connected to the head coil arrangement by the automatic positioning via the second housing latching into the first housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.