Patent · US Active

Gradient coil cooling device and method and gradient coil embodying same

US7463029B2 · kind B2 · utility

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7References

17Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Johann Schuster · Oberasbach, DE
Stefan Stocker · Großenseebach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 28, 2007
Grant date	Dec 9, 2008
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 28, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/4935
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A cooling apparatus for arrangement between two surface coils of a gradient coil to dissipate the heat produced when current is supplied to the surface coils by a coolant flowing into the cooling apparatus, is formed as a flexible, mat-type surface structure, and has a coolant-holding space with at least one coolant inflow and at least one coolant outflow.

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