Patent ID: 8706189

Claim:
A component of a medical imaging system, arranged between an examination volume and a detector of the imaging system during an examination, the component comprising: materials compatible with both MRI and PET, an outer layer of a first material having a tensile strength of >100 N/mm 2 and a modulus of elasticity of >5 kN/m 2 which encloses a filler material with a lower density or lower atomic number than the first material, wherein the materials are not electrically conducting, are not ferromagnetic, have a dielectric constant of ∈≦2 and a dielectric loss factor of less than 0.02, the component has an effective total radiation damping coefficient of 0.01 1/cm or less, and the component is an antenna support for a local coil in the medical imaging system, wherein the filling material is stiffened by a cell structure, the cell structure being a honeycomb structure with walls having a thickness of a few centimeters.