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US09448297B2 Mode splitter/combiner for noise figure minimization and control of power in RF coil arrays 有权
模式分路器/组合器,用于噪声系数最小化和RF线圈阵列功率的控制

  • Patent Title: Mode splitter/combiner for noise figure minimization and control of power in RF coil arrays
  • Patent Title (中): 模式分路器/组合器,用于噪声系数最小化和RF线圈阵列功率的控制
  • Application No.: US14240520
    Application Date: 2012-08-27
  • Publication No.: US09448297B2
    Publication Date: 2016-09-20
  • Inventor: George Randall Duensing
  • Applicant: George Randall Duensing
  • Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
  • Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
  • Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
  • Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
  • International Application: PCT/IB2012/054366 WO 20120827
  • International Announcement: WO2013/035007 WO 20130314
  • Main IPC: A61B5/05
  • IPC: A61B5/05 G01R33/565 G01R33/36 H01Q3/26
Mode splitter/combiner for noise figure minimization and control of power in RF coil arrays
Abstract:
A magnetic resonance (MR) system (10) minimizes noise for modes of an array of coils (261, 262, . . . , 26n). The system (10) includes an array of coils (261, 262, . . . , 26n) in which the coils of the array (261, 262, . . . 26n) share impedances. A splitter/combiner (30) receives a plurality of signals (S1; S2, . . . , Sn) from each of the coils (261, 262, . . . , 26n) and converts the plurality of signals (S1; S2, . . . , Sn) to a plurality of signals (S1; S2, . . . , Sn) which are compensated for the shared impedance. The splitter/combiner (30) splits the received signals (S1; S2, . . . , Sn) into components and combines components of like frequency and/or phase to create the impedance compensated signals (S1; S2, . . . , Sn). Each impedance compensated signal is amplified by a corresponding preamplifier (381, 382, . . . , 38n).
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