Patent ID: 7622925

Claim:
An MRI coil system comprising: a pair of multi-turn coils disposed to face each other in an x-direction across a space for accommodating a subject, said pair of multi-turn coils having at least one of a number of turns and a pitch differentiated between said pair of multi-turn coils, wherein said pair of multi-turn coils have different sensitivity distributions disposed in a phase encoding direction substantially perpendicular to said x-direction and are configured to conduct parallel magnetic resonance imaging, wherein at least one field of view of said MRI coil system is substantially perpendicular to said x-direction, a first multi-turn coil of said pair of multi-turn coils has a sensitivity distribution increasing in a (−y)-direction, and a second multi-turn coil of said pair of multi-turn coils has a sensitivity distribution increasing in the (+y)-direction, the second multi-turn coil being substantially an inverted mirror image of the first multi-turn coil, wherein the first multi-turn coil receives a first signal at a location proximate a first end of the first multi-turn coil toward the (+y)-direction adjacent to a first end of the second multi-turn coil toward the (+y)-direction, the second multi-turn coil receives a second signal at a location proximate the first end of the second multi-turn coil, and the second multi-turn coil outputs the second signal at a location between the location at which the first signal of the first multi-turn coil is received and a location at which an output signal of the first multi-turn coil is outputted.