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US 9,429,634 B2Granted
MRI coil design with volumetric trough-shaped coil elements
AssigneeThe University of Queensland
InventorsStuart Crozier, Bing Keong Li, Feng Liu, Ewald Weber
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Abstract
A coil for a magnetic resonance imaging device consists of multiple coil elements arranged about an imaging space. Each coil element comprise radiating structures oriented at an angle to a tangent of the imaging space. Angling the radiating structures reduces mutual coupling between coil elements and enhances the penetration of the radio frequency field to the imaging space.
Claims11
A transmit and/or receive radio frequency coil, the coil comprising:
- an RF field generator, said RF field generator generating an RF field within a substantially cylindrical measuring space, said RF field generator comprising:
- a plurality of volumetric trough-shaped coil elements, enclosing said cylindrical measuring space,
- each volumetric trough-shaped coil element having, as part of its structure, two oppositely spaced apart, elongated radiating structures and two end elements connected between facing ends of said elongated radiating structures, with each end element generating capacitive coupling between said two radiating structures,
- said capacitive coupling being selected in order to tune each volumetric trough-shaped coil element to a desired resonant frequency and impedance,
- wherein each radiating structure is aligned at an angle α relative to a tangent of said cylindrical measuring space, said angle α being selected in order to increase an RF field at a center of said cylindrical measuring space and in order to regulate a mutual decoupling between neighbouring volumetric trough-shaped coil elements;
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- a plurality of counter wound inductors disposed between adjacent volumetric trough-shaped coil elements in order to mutually decouple said volumetric trough-shaped coil elements from each other.
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