Head RF quadrature coil array for parallel imaging

US6900635B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Labros Petropoulos · Cleveland Heights, US
• Hiroyuki Fujita · Osaka, JP
• Mark Xueming Zou · Aurora, US
• Yun Jeong Yang · Streetsboro, US
• Dan Kenrick Spence · Hartland, US
• Joseph Murphy-Boesch · Rockville, US
• Pei H. Chan · Aurora, US
• Dashen Chu · Waukesha, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2002
• Grant date: May 31, 2005
• Expiry date: Apr 3, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/5611
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A partially parallel acquisition RF coil array for imaging a human head having a summit and a lower portion includes at least a first, a second and a third quadrature coil pair adapted to be arranged circumambiently about the lower portion of the head; and at least a forth, a fifth and a sixth quadrature coil pair adapted to be conformably arranged about the summit of the head.