Breast coil arrangement for magnetic resonance applications

US8843192B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Christian Geppert · Erlangen, DE
• Rainer Kurth · Erlangen, DE
• Titus Lanz · Rimpar, DE
• Florian Odoj · Veitshöchheim, DE
• Silke Quick · Essen, DE
• Christian Schuster · Yorktown Heights, US
• Alexander Weisser · Rimpar, DE
• Tobias Wichmann · Rimpar, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 14, 2009
• Grant date: Sep 23, 2014
• Expiry date: Feb 25, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B5/7207
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A breast coil arrangement for magnetic resonance applications has a placement web that allows an examination subject to lie with her sternum on the placement web with each breast in a receptacle respectively on opposite sides of the placement web. The breast receptacles have limiting elements whose spacing from one another can be adjusted. Multiple array coils are respectively arranged in the limiting elements and are stationary relative to the limiting elements. Each breast receptacle is surrounded by a volume coil that is stationary relative to the placement web. The volume coils are arranged centrally and orthogonally relative to the array coils and surround the array coils. The volume coils are decoupled from the array coils. A spectroscopy phantom can be arranged in proximity to the placement web.