Local coil for magnetic resonance applications
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsFriedrich Fuchs, Rainer Kuth
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Abstract
A local coil for magnetic resonance applications has an annular base body in which a reception antenna is embedded to receive a magnetic resonance signal. The base body is fashioned with inherent stability, such that it assumes an inherent form when not subjected to deformation forces. It is dimensioned such that it substantially assumes its inherent form given arrangement in a palate and/or in a nasal cavity of a person. Furthermore, it is flexibly fashioned, such that is can be inserted via a nostril of a person into the nasal cavity and removed again from it.
Claims9
A local coil for magnetic resonance applications, comprising:
- an annular base body having an inherent stability causing said base body to assume an inherent form in an absence of deforming forces acting on said base body;
- an antenna resonator embedded in said base body and adapted to receive a magnetic resonance signal;
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- said base body having a flexibility allowing said base body to be inserted via a nostril into the nasal cavity of a subject in whom said magnetic resonance signal is generated, and allowing said base body to be removed from the nasal cavity via the nostril, said base body, in the nasal cavity substantially assuming said inherent form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.