Patent ID: 7315167
Filing Date: 2008-01-01
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A volume coil for emitting or receiving radio frequency energy in a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, said volume coil comprising: two coil carriers forming, in combination, an annular ring, one of said two coil carriers being a rigid coil carrier and forming a lower portion of said annular ring, and the other of said two coil carriers being a deformable coil carrier forming an upper portion of the annular ring; said rigid coil carrier having a carrier insert at a side thereof facing an interior of said annular ring, said rigid coil carrier extending beyond said carrier insert at each of opposite ends of said rigid coil carrier; at least one end of said deformable coil carrier being displaceably radially inwardly passed an adjacent end of the rigid coil carrier until said at least one end of said deformable coil carrier abuts an adjacent end of said carrier insert, and said at least one end of said deformable coil carrier also being displaceable radially inwardly past said adjacent end of said carrier insert; and a plurality of radio frequency resonators carried by said two coil carriers.