Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Antenna device and magnetic resonance imaging device for suppressing absorption rate of irradiated waves
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Application No.: US13877702Application Date: 2011-10-06
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Publication No.: US09599685B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Hideta Habara , Yoshitaka Bito , Hisaaki Ochi , Yoshihisa Soutome , Masayoshi Dohata , Tetsuhiko Takahashi , Hiroyuki Takeuchi
- Applicant: Hideta Habara , Yoshitaka Bito , Hisaaki Ochi , Yoshihisa Soutome , Masayoshi Dohata , Tetsuhiko Takahashi , Hiroyuki Takeuchi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
- Current Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-227515 20101007
- International Application: PCT/JP2011/073119 WO 20111006
- International Announcement: WO2012/046812 WO 20120412
- Main IPC: G01R33/34
- IPC: G01R33/34 ; G01R33/345 ; H01Q9/06 ; H01Q21/20 ; G01R33/28 ; G01R33/36 ; G01R33/422

Abstract:
There is provided a technique for suppressing increase of SAR without sacrificing sensitivity in RF coils used in MRI apparatuses. The present invention provides an antenna device comprising a sheet-shaped conductor and a ribbon-shaped conductor disposed on the subject side with respect to the sheet-shaped conductor with a predetermined distance from the sheet-shaped conductor. The ribbon-shaped conductor has a meandering shape, and is adjusted so as to resonate at transmission and reception frequencies, and it is constituted so that distance to the sheet-shaped conductor becomes smaller at both end part thereof along the static magnetic field direction compared with the distance to the sheet-shaped conductor at the center thereof. Moreover, the ribbon-shaped conductor is constituted so as to have a smaller width, as the distance to the sheet-shaped conductor becomes smaller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130221968A1 ANTENNA DEVICE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2013-08-29
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