Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100036237 | DETECTOR UNIT FOR ARRANGEMENT WITHIN A FIELD GENERATING UNIT OF AN MR DEVICE - A detector unit for arrangement in a field generating unit of a magnetic resonance device has an RF transmission/reception system for transmitting RF pulses into, or receiving magnetic resonance signals from, an examination volume of the field generation unit. The RF transmission/reception system surrounds a patient tunnel at a radial distance from a tunnel axis thereof, and is divided into two sub-systems located at a distance from each other along the direction of the tunnel axis, so as to form a substantially annular cavity or interstice therebetween. | 02-11-2010 |
20100056902 | PATIENT POSITIONING COUCH AND MEDICAL DEVICE WITH A PATIENT POSITIONING COUCH - A patient positioning couch includes an illumination apparatus having at least one light source that is arranged in the patient positioning couch. The patient positioning couch is capable of being placed in an examination area of a medical device. Through the arrangement of the at least one light source of the illumination apparatus of the patient positioning couch, it is always ensured that the illumination does not lose its location relative to a patient or another object positioned on the patient positioning couch, even if the position of the patient positioning couch changes, e.g. if the patient positioning couch is moved into or out of the examination area. At the same time an especially space-saving illumination of the examination area can thus be achieved. | 03-04-2010 |
20100066369 | Full-Body Antenna For A Magnetic Resonance System Comprising Hollow Rods - A whole-body antenna for a magnetic resonance apparatus has an antenna structure composed of a number of antenna rods extending in a rod direction between first and second ends of the antenna structure. The antenna rods are distributed around a central axis of the antenna structure, forming an examination region for an examination subject in a magnetic resonance examination. The antenna rods are coupled to each other at their first ends by a ferrule. Each of the rods is a hollow rod, and each rod is connected at its second end to ground via a hollow ring. Conductors are routed in the interior of the hollow rods, and can be routed through the hollow ring to the exterior of the antenna structure. | 03-18-2010 |
20110267051 | STANDING WAVE TRAP - The present embodiments relate to a standing wave trap for a magnetic resonance tomography device. The standing wave trap includes a conductor region extending in one plane and at least one capacitor that is conductively connected to two sections of the conductor region. | 11-03-2011 |
20120062232 | TRANSMIT COIL ARRANGEMENT FOR A MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE - A transmit coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance device includes a plurality of individually actuatable conductor loops following one after another in a peripheral direction and a longitudinal direction on a cylinder surface. At least two groups, at a distance from one another in the peripheral direction, of at least two conductor loops following one after the other in the longitudinal direction are provided in the peripheral direction. To decouple the at least two groups, each of the at least two groups is bounded at least in the peripheral direction by at least one screen surface extending essentially in a radial direction and the longitudinal direction. | 03-15-2012 |
20120068710 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE, REFLECTOR ARRAY AND HIGH-FREQUENCY SHIELD SYSTEM FOR A MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE - A magnetic resonance device with a measurement chamber, an antenna arrangement that has a plurality of antenna elements arranged at least in certain areas around the measurement chamber, a gradient coil system arranged outside the antenna arrangement as seen from the measurement chamber, and a high-frequency shield system arranged between the antenna arrangement and the gradient coil system are provided. The high-frequency shield system has a reflector array with a plurality of passive reflector resonance circuits, each of which is configured such that resonance frequencies of the plurality of passive reflector resonance circuits lie below an operating magnetic resonance frequency of the magnetic resonance device and that the plurality of passive reflector resonance circuits has an inductive overall impedance. | 03-22-2012 |
20120086451 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANTENNA AND A MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE HAVING A MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANTENNA - The present embodiments include a magnetic resonance antenna having parallel-running longitudinal antenna rods arranged in a birdcage structure and antenna ferrules connecting the parallel-running longitudinal antenna rods at ends of the parallel-running longitudinal antenna rods in radio frequency terms. The magnetic resonance antenna includes a plurality of radio-frequency switching elements configured to interrupt at least a part of the parallel-running longitudinal antenna rods to detune a natural resonance frequency with respect to an operating magnetic resonance frequency in radio frequency terms. At least some radio-frequency switching elements of the plurality of radio-frequency switching elements are arranged at end sections of the parallel-running longitudinal antenna rods. | 04-12-2012 |
20120098540 | ANTENNA CIRCUIT FOR AN MRI SYSTEM - The present embodiments include an antenna circuit that is adapted to supply and/or read out a plurality of antenna elements of an antenna assembly of a magnetic resonance imaging system. The antenna elements are decoupled by phase shifter elements and supplied with signals by the phase shifter elements. The antenna circuit may also be used to detect signals that are received by the antenna elements. | 04-26-2012 |
20120182013 | ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPLICATIONS - An antenna arrangement for magnetic resonance applications includes antenna elements substantially parallel to a common central axis, distributed around the central axis at a distance from the central axis, and enclosing an essentially cylindrical volume. The antenna arrangement includes intermediate connections that connect to immediately adjacent antenna elements at connection points that lie between the ends of the antenna elements. A preamplifier connects to each of the intermediate connections and has an output that, in a receive mode, corresponds to a respective feed-out point. In send mode, the antenna arrangement injects radio-frequency signals into the antenna elements using the injection points. The antenna arrangement is also configured to adjust the intermediate connections to a higher resistance when the antenna arrangement is in the send mode and at least some of the intermediate connections to a lower resistance when the antenna arrangement is in the receive mode. | 07-19-2012 |
20120313645 | LOCAL COIL SYSTEM, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE WIRELESS TRANSFER OF ENERGY TO A LOCAL COIL SYSTEM - A local coil system for a magnetic resonance system including at least one local coil for capturing magnetic resonance (MR) signals and at least one energy receiving antenna for inductively receiving energy for the local coil system from a temporally varying magnetic field is provided. The at least one energy receiving antenna is or may be tuned to an energy transfer frequency that is lower than a Larmor frequency of the MR signals to be captured and higher than approximately 20 kHz. | 12-13-2012 |
20130008726 | PATIENT SUPPORT APPARATUS FOR A MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS AND A MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING THE PATIENT SUPPORT APPARATUS - A patient support apparatus for a medical imaging apparatus, such as a magnetic resonance apparatus, is proposed. The patient support apparatus has a couch, a lifting unit for vertical movement of the couch, a travel unit, and at least one sensor unit to detect at least one weight variable for determining the weight of a patient. The at least one sensor unit has at least one sensor element, which is disposed on the lifting unit and/or on the travel unit. | 01-10-2013 |
20130090896 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL STRUCTURE OF A HIGH-FREQUENCY SHIELD OF A HIGH-FREQUENCY ANTENNA OF A MAGNETIC RESONANCE ARRANGEMENT - A method determines an optimal structure of a high-frequency shield of a high-frequency antenna of a magnetic resonance arrangement. The high-frequency shield shields the high-frequency antenna from a gradient-coil arrangement. A three-dimensional initial structure of the high-frequency shield is defined in accordance with structural parameters and jointly with the high-frequency antenna, the gradient-coil arrangement, or both the high-frequency antenna and the gradient-coil arrangement. The structural parameters are optimized via an optimization method with respect to at least one optimization criterion. | 04-11-2013 |
20130221965 | B1 Field-Based Regulation Within a Sequence for NMR - A B1 magnetic field may be regulated during a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) imaging sequence. | 08-29-2013 |
20130300418 | MR Antenna With Compensation for Variable Distance to Shield - A whole-body coil for a magnetic resonance tomography device includes one or more compensation capacitors between a high-frequency antenna and an RF shield. The one or more compensation capacitors each have variable capacitance caused by a variation in a distance of the RF shield to the high-frequency antenna. | 11-14-2013 |