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Automatic HF shim configuration for coils

US9488713B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Rene Gumbrecht · Herzogenaurach, DE
Holger Adolf · Zirndorf, DE
Thomas Benner · Erlangen, DE
Hans-Peter Fautz · Forchheim, DE
Jörg Ulrich Fontius · Fairview Avenue, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 31, 2013
Grant date	Nov 8, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 8, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01R33/5612
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In order to configure a transmission coil of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system without taking a specific measurement object into account, the transmission coil is automatically detected and identified when the transmission coil is connected to the MRI system. A phase setting of a pulse to be transmitted by the detected transmission coil is identified based on at least the identified type of the transmission coil. The transmission coil is excited with the pulse having the identified phase and amplitude.

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