Gradient coil with direct cooling
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsArthur Kaindl, Lothar Schoen, Johann Schuster
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Abstract
Gradient coil for magnetic resonance (MR) devices has direct cooling by means of cooling lines that are embedded in the coil and through which a cooling agent flows. The cooling lines are arranged substantially parallel to one another, such as parallel to the axis of the gradient coil, and are combined to form heat exchanger modules whose individual cooling lines are coupled with one another so that the maximum length between the inlet and outlet of a module corresponds to twice the longitudinal length of the gradient coil.
Claims10
A gradient coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance apparatus, comprising:
- at least one conductor forming a gradient coil having a longitudinal length;
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- a heat exchanger module having one inlet and one outlet and a plurality of cooling lines in fluid communication with said inlet and said outlet, with cooling agent flowing into said inlet and through said cooling lines and out of said outlet, said cooling lines proceeding substantially parallel to each other and said inlet and said outlet being disposed relative to each other so that a maximum length through which said cooling agent flows between said inlet and said outlet is twice said longitudinal length of said coil, wherein all of the cooling lines in said module being connected at one end of said module, to a first distribution channel in fluid communication with said inlet for said cooling agent and at an opposite end of said module, to a second distribution channel in fluid communication with said outlet for said cooling agent, and
- said inlet centrally discharging into said first distribution channel and said second distribution channel discharges centrally into said outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.