RF coil for a highly uniform B1 amplitude for high field MRI

Details RF coil for a highly uniform B1 amplitude for high field MRI RF coil for a highly uniform B1 amplitude for high field MRI

2007-08-21

2007-08-21

Arana, Louis M. (Department: 2859)

Electricity: measuring and testing

Particle precession resonance

Spectrometer components

C324S322000, C600S422000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11352770

ABSTRACT:
An array coil to achieve more uniform RF excitation for high field magnetic resonance imaging. In the preferred embodiment, the array coil has a plurality of transmit-composite elements distributed around the object to be imaged. A composite element comprises up to three current loops preferably orthogonal to each another. The array coil has the capability to shape the distribution of all three orthogonal components (x, y, and z) of the RF B1field.

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