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Open mr system provided with transmission rf coil arrays

  • US 20050174116A1
  • Filed: 06/11/2003
  • Published: 08/11/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An MR system for MR imaging, including:

  • an open main field magnet with two main field magnet poles which are arranged on opposite sides of an examination zone in order to generate a magnetic main field;

    a gradient coil system with a plurality of gradient coils for generating magnetic gradient fields;

    an RF coil system for transmitting and/or receiving RF signals with two planar RF coil arrays which are situated on opposite sides of the examination zone, each RF coil array including at least two RF coils which are decoupled from one another and are connected to a respective channel of a transmit/receive unit;

    a transmit/receive unit which includes a respective channel for an RF coil of the RF coil system, each RF coil being separately controllable in the transmission mode;

    a control unit for controlling the MR imaging; and

    a processing unit for processing received MR signals.

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