Whole body MRI resonator

Electricity: measuring and testing – Particle precession resonance – Spectrometer components

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324322, 333219, G01R 3320

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ABSTRACT:
A resonator coil assembly (32) includes a dielectric sleeve (40) on which a first resonator coil portion (42) and a second resonator coil portion (44), each of copper foil, are adhered. The dielectric sleeve is dimensioned to receive a human torso therein and in one embodiment (FIG. 1) is circular in cross section and in another (FIG. 4) is elliptical in cross section. A pair of adjustable tuning capacitances (64, 66) and a pair of adjustable matching capacitances (68, 70) are interconnected between one end of the each coil portion and a metal bore liner (54). An opposite end of the coil portions are capacitively coupled to each other (FIG. 1) or to the bore liner (FIG. 3). A half wave length cable (72) interconnects the junctions between the first and second tuning and matching capacitances. One of these junctions is connected by a cable (74) with a radio frequency generator (30) and a radio receiver (34).

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