Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Radio frequency coil, magnetic resonance imaging device using same, and method for adjusting multi-channel radio frequency coil
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Application No.: US16075227Application Date: 2017-02-17
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Publication No.: US10761158B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Yosuke Otake , Hisaaki Ochi , Kohjiro Iwasawa
- Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
- Current Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@18c5cb56
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/005896 WO 20170217
- International Announcement: WO2017/150215 WO 20170908
- Main IPC: G01R33/36
- IPC: G01R33/36 ; G01R33/34 ; G01R33/3415 ; G01R33/343 ; A61B5/055 ; A61B5/00

Abstract:
A multichannel array coil of an MRI apparatus achieves both a wide sensitivity and low noise. An RF coil (array coil) is provided with a plurality of subcoils. Each of those subcoils is adjusted to be receivable of nuclear magnetic resonance signals, and also adjusted so that a part of current (first current) passing through one subcoil upon receipt of the signals flows into the other subcoil in the form of sub-current. A flowing direction of the first current is opposite to the flowing direction of the sub-current, and an electric field generated by the first current within a subject and an electric field generated by the first sub-current within the subject intensify each other in the space between a first loop coil unit and a second loop coil unit. Accordingly, noise correlation that is determined by an inner product of the electric fields is reduced, thereby achieving low noise.
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