Patent ID: 8013605

Claim:
A magnetic resonance system comprising: a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit comprising an interior examination region that is open axially at opposite ends relative to a central axis, said examination region being radially surrounded by an inner wall of the data acquisition unit; a transport bed configured to receive an examination subject thereon and being movable to convey the examination subject into and out of the examination region; a basic field magnet built into the data acquisition unit that generates a static, basic magnetic field in the examination region; an RF energy transmission arrangement built into the data acquisition unit that radiates a substantially homogenous RF field in an entirety of the examination region, causing the examination subject in the examination region to emit magnetic resonance signals; a radio-frequency reception arrangement built into the data acquisition unit that receives the magnetic resonance signals emitted by the examination subject; said reception arrangement operating as a resistive arrangement when said radio-frequency energy is radiated by the transmission arrangement, and operating as a superconducting arrangement when said magnetic resonance signals are received by the reception arrangement; and a single structural arrangement that forms both said transmission arrangement and said reception arrangement, and that is operable in a transmission mode and a reception mode, said structural arrangement comprising current-carrying elements that carry a reception current in the reception mode and that carry an excitation current in the transmission mode that flows in a current flow direction, said current-carrying elements, transverse to said current flow direction, exhibiting a superconducting partial cross section and a non-superconducting partial cross section, said superconducting partial cross section having a current-carrying capacity between said reception current and said excitation current, and said reception current propagating in said superconducting partial cross section and said excitation current propagating in said non-superconducting partial cross section.