Patent ID: 8035382

Claim:
A magnetic resonance coil comprising: a first magnetic resonance receive coil; a second magnetic resonance receive coil; and a first decoupling apparatus comprising; a first decoupling coil inductively coupled to the first receive coil; a second decoupling coil inductively coupled to the second receive coil; electrical conductors that connect the first and second decoupling coils so as to form an electrical circuit therebetween, wherein the electrical conductors form a crossover located electrically between the first and second decoupling coils; and an active electronic element that automatically varies, when imaging an object, an electrical a current in the electrical circuit in response to an electrical current induced by a mutual inductance between the first and second magnetic resonance receive coils, which varies based at least one of a shape or a size of the object, such that an electrical current induced by the first decoupling apparatus is approximately equal to the electrical current induced by a mutual inductance between the first and second magnetic resonance receive coils.