Patent ID: 8575935

Claim:
A radio frequency receiver for receiving analogue signals from at least one radio frequency receiver coil unit of a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the radio frequency receiver being integrated with the radio frequency receiver coil unit within an examination room, the radio frequency receiver comprising: an analogue-digital converter configured to convert the received analogue signals into a first digital signal; a resampling and digital demodulation unit configured to convert the first digital signal into a second digital signal; a communication interface configured to send the second digital signal to a control and data acquisition system via a communication link; a first clock generator configured to generate a sampling clock for clocking the analogue-digital converter using a digital timing reference from a master clock in the control and data acquisition system, the digital timing reference being received in a datastream by the communication interface via the communication link; and a second clock generator configured to generate a system clock for clocking the resampling and demodulation unit, the system clock being derived from the sampling clock.