Patent ID: 7221160

Claim:
An MR device for MR imaging, which device includes: a main field magnet for generating a steady main magnetic field; a gradient coil system with a plurality of gradient coils for generating magnetic gradient fields; an RF coil system for transmitting and/or receiving RF signals, which coil system includes at least two RF coil arrays which are integrated in one coil former and have been optimized for different applications, each RF coil array comprising at least two RF coils decoupled from one another; at least one of the RF coil arrays is optimized for parallel imaging; a transmit/receive unit for driving the RF coil arrays and for receiving MR signals from the RF coil arrays, there being provided a plurality of channels, notably a number of channels which corresponds to the number of RF coils of the RF coil array comprising the largest number of RF coils; a control unit for controlling the MR imaging, the control unit being arranged to switch over the RF coil arrays for temporally separate use of the individual RF coil arrays during the MR data acquisition; and a processing unit for processing received MR signals.