Local coil for a magnetic resonance device
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsRudi Baumgartl, Stephan Biber, Martin Hemmerlein
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Abstract
A local coil for a magnetic resonance device includes a connector apparatus for establishing a connection to a plug-in station on a patient couch and at least one storage facility. The storage facility may be used to read out by way of the connection and may store at least one non-modifiable data item describing a property of the local coil. The storage facility may include at least one detection facility for acquiring measurement values describing the state of the local coil and at least one evaluation facility configured to modify the readout address of the storage facility as a function of the measurement values.
Claims20
A local coil for a magnetic resonance device, the local coil comprising:
- a connector apparatus for establishing a connection to a plug-in station on a patient couch;
- and
- a storage device that is operable to be read out by way of the connection, the storage device storing a non-modifiable data item describing a property of the local coil,
- wherein the local coil comprises a detection device for acquiring measurement values describing the state of the local coil, and an evaluation device configured to modify a readout address of the storage device as a function of the measurement values.
A magnetic resonance device comprising:
- a patient couch;
- a control device configured to read out a storage device of a local coil by way of a data connection established by a connector apparatus of the local coil plugged into a plug-in station on the patient couch, the control device being configured to determine information describing a readout address of the storage device and a data item stored in the storage device, the data item describing a property of the local coil;
- a detection device for acquiring measurement values describing the state of the local coil;
- and
- an evaluation device configured to modify the readout address of the storage device as a function of the measurement values.
A method for indicating a change in the state of a local coil for a magnetic resonance system, the method comprising:
- establishing a connection, with a connector apparatus, to a plug-in station on a patient couch;
- and
- reading out from a storage system by way of the connection, a non-modifiable data item describing a property of the local coil,
- wherein reading out the storage system comprises:
- acquiring measurement values describing the state of the local coil;
- and
- modifying a readout address of the storage system as a function of the measurement values when the measurement values indicate a state change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.