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Dividing wall separating the RF antenna from the patient chamber in an MR scanner

US7501826B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Ludwig Eberler · Dresden, DE
Wolfgang Renz · Erlangen, DE
Guenther Zebelein · Baiersdorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 28, 2007
Grant date	Mar 10, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 28, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/288
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A dividing wall made from at least one first wall material for delimitation of a patient positioning region from an antenna structure of a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus has at least one region at which a specific sub-structure of the antenna structure is located on the side of the dividing wall facing away from the patient positioning region, at which the dividing wall has a wall part made from a second wall material with a dielectric constant that is lower than the dielectric constant of the first wall material.

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