Patent ID: 8384388

Claim:
A magnetic resonance receiver system comprising: an antenna arrangement comprising a plurality of reception antenna elements each configured to receive magnetic resonance signals from an examination subject; a combination network arrangement comprising a plurality of combination networks, said plurality of combination networks being respectively supplied with different combinations of said magnetic resonance signals from said reception antenna elements, and each combination network combining the magnetic resonance signals supplied thereto to form a mode, with each of said combination networks forming a different mode from the modes respectively formed by others of said combination networks; a frequency multiplexer arrangement connected downstream of said combination network, said frequency multiplexer arrangement comprising a plurality of frequency multiplexers and each frequency multiplexer, by frequency multiplexing, superimposing at least some of said modes to form a common transmission signal; a transmission line arrangement comprising a plurality of transmission lines respectively connected to said frequency multiplexers to respectively transmit the respective common transmission signals; a first channel switching matrix comprising a plurality of input channels respectively connected to said plurality of transmission lines, and having a plurality of output channels, and a control input, said first channel switching matrix being configured to connect, dependent on a control signal supplied to said control input, at least one of said transmission lines through said first channel switching matrix to one of said output channels; a frequency demultiplexer arrangement connected downstream of said first channel switching matrix, said frequency demultiplexer arrangement being supplied with at least one of said common transmission signals from an output channel of said first channel switching matrix and being configured to filter the modes that were superimposed in said common transmission signal out of said common transmission signal; and a second channel switching matrix connected downstream of said frequency demultiplexer arrangement configured to supply the modes that were filtered out of said common transmission channel to a magnetic resonance signal processing device.