Patent ID: 8049500

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detector coil configured to receive a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal from an object subjected to radio frequency (RF) energy applied by an MRI apparatus according to an MRI pulse sequence; one or more dynamically configurable transmitters to transmit an RF transmission to the MRI apparatus according to a configurable set of transmission parameters, the RF transmission being based, at least in part, on the NMR signal received by the MRI detector coil; and a tuning logic configured to enter an active state and a passive state under the control of a tuning program, where the tuning logic, when in the passive state, is to generate substantially no RF that could interfere with receiving the NMR signal at the MRI detector coil, and where the tuning logic, when in the active state, is to configure the one or more dynamically configurable transmitters to transmit according to the set of transmission parameters.