Patent ID: 8294460
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: A61B,G01R

Abstract:
1. A magnetic resonance local coil assembly comprising: a magnetic resonance local coil configured to at least to receive magnetic resonance signals from an examination subject on a patient bed in a magnetic resonance apparatus, said patient bed defining a supporting plane; a mechanically dimensionally stable supporting element, in which said local coil is mounted, configured for placement on said supporting plane of the patient bed to transfer weight of the local coil to the patient bed, said supporting element being configured to conform to a body part of the examination subject; a multipole, prefabricated electrical interface mounted in said supporting element and electrically connected to the local coil in said supporting element; and said electrical interface being dimensionally stably mounted in said supporting element and being configured to mate, by insertion in a plug-in direction, with an electrical counter-interface that is dimensionally stably mounted to said patient bed, with said plug-in direction oriented at an angle of at least 20° relative to said supporting plane and at an angle relative to the surface normal of said supporting plane that is equal to 90° minus said angle relative to said supporting plane, and said supporting element being configured to simultaneously mechanically hold said local coil on said patient bed and place said electrical interface and said electrical counter-interface in mating, electrical connection with each other.