Magnetic resonance antenna

US6806710B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Renz · Erlangen, DE
• Markus Vester · Koblenzer Straße, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 19, 2004
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/34046
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A magnetic resonance antenna has at least five antenna elements, each of, which extends essentially radially from an inner element beginning to at least one outer element end with respect to a center axis. The antenna elements are at least magnetically coupled with one another.