Systems for a radio frequency coil for MR imaging

US11280858B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Robert Steven Stormont · Hartland, US
• Scott Allen Lindsay · Waukesha, US
• Victor Taracila · Beachwood, US
• Ghazi Mustafa · North Royalton, US
• Nabeel M. Malik · Missouri City, US
• Fraser John Laing Robb · Aurora, US
• Dashen Chu · Waukesha, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 22, 2017
• Grant date: Mar 22, 2022
• Expiry date: Nov 22, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/3621
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Various methods and systems are provided for a flexible, lightweight, and low-cost radio frequency (RF) coil of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. In one example, a RF coil assembly for an MRI system includes a distributed capacitance loop portion comprising two parallel conductor wires encapsulated and separated by a dielectric material, the two parallel conductor wires maintained separate by the dielectric material along an entire length of the loop portion between terminating ends thereof, a coupling electronics portion including a pre-amplifier, and a coil-interfacing cable extending between the coupling electronics portion and an interfacing connector of the RF coil assembly.