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US 9,958,517 B2Granted
Shoulder coil having a flexible top part and/or a mounting-dependent element selection
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsStephan Biber, Rainer Kurth, Stephan Zink
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Abstract
A shoulder coil for a magnetic resonance imaging device includes a bottom part and one or more top part elements that may be moved relative to the bottom part. The one or more top elements each have at least one coil therein.
Claims16
A shoulder coil for a magnetic resonance imaging device, the shoulder coil comprising:
- a bottom part;
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- at least two top part elements that are directly connected to the bottom part and are moveable relative to the bottom part, at least one coil being located in each top part element of the at least two top part elements,
- wherein two top part elements of the at least two top part elements are hingedly openable and closeable relative to the bottom part in different directions that are approximately perpendicular to one another, the two top part elements being closeable, such that the two top part elements are positioned with one of the two top part elements on top of the other of the two top part elements.
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