System and method for electrically contacting local coils with a signal processor remote therefrom in a magnetic resonance scanner

US7990147B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Daniel Driemel · Oederan, DE
• Oliver Heid · Erlangen, DE
• Thomas Kundner · Buckenhof, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 2009
• Grant date: Aug 2, 2011
• Expiry date: Jan 29, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/56383
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a contacting system and method for contacting magnetic resonance local coils with a unit for additional signal processing of a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, a number of coil coupler elements are electrically connected with the magnetic resonance local coils and apparatus coupler elements are mounted at the magnetic resonance tomograph, and are electrically connected with a unit for signal processing. The coil coupler elements and the apparatus coupler elements are fashioned so that, given a movement of the local coils along a movement path in the magnetic resonance data acquisition unit, a successive contacting of at least a portion of the coil coupler elements with apparatus coupler elements ensues at least over a specific path segment of the movement.