Patent ID: 7990145
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A magnetic resonance coil assembly, comprising: a main magnet which generates a uniform magnetic field through an examination region: a radio-frequency coil element configured to receive an analog magnetic resonance from a subject under examination; a sampling circuit radio frequency coil element the sampling circuit sampling the analog magnetic resonance signal creating a digital magnetic resonance signal; an encoder connected sampling circuit, the encoder forming the digital magnetic resonance signal into a series of data packets, dynamically allocating a number of bits in each data packet been based on a characteristic of at least a portion of the digital magnetic resonance signal represented by each data packet; wherein the characteristic of the at least a portion of the digital magnetic resonance signal represented by each data packet, which determines the number of dynamically allocated bits includes at least one, or more of the characteristics of: a reconstruction processor which reconstructs the digital magnetic resonance signal data packets into an image; and, a display device on which the reconstructed image is displayed.