Patent ID: 6501274
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
A magnetic resonance imaging system comprising:(a) a housing providing a medical diagnostic chamber for a subject therewithin lying along an axis; (b) a transmit/receive inductor system about said axis in proximity with said housing; (c) a gradient inductor system operatively associated with said transmit/receive inductor system; (d) a static magnetic field inductor system operatively associated with said transmit/receive inductor system; (e) said transmit/receive inductor system constituting a coil having an outer surface about said axis and including a series of electrical transmission line elements paraxially distributed with respect to said axis about said subject, each of said transmission line elements including an outer conductor and an inner conductor, said inner conductor being spaced from said outer conductor in a direction perpendicular to said outer surface; (f) said coil initially transmitting to said subject fields of radio frequency energy as a transmit signal, and responsively receiving from said subject fields of magnetic resonance energy as a receive signal; (g) said gradient inductor system initiating perturbations in said fields and producing signals derived responsively from said perturbations; (h) said signals corresponding to spatial indicia derived from said subject.