Patent ID: 8155727

Claim:
A wrist coil for magnetic resonance imaging, comprising; a first tubular coil having a first tubular coil surface with a shape and dimensions configured to fit extracorporeally around a human wrist; said first tubular coil being formed by a plurality of first coil splicing units that are spliced together in succession at spliced parts of said first coil splicing units; a first annular coil unit wound around said first tubular coil surface; a second tubular coil having a second tubular coil surface also with a shape and dimensions configured to fit extracorporeally around a human wrist; said second tubular coil being formed by a plurality of second coil splicing units that are spliced together in succession at spliced parts of said second coil splicing units; a second annular coil unit wound around said second tubular coil surface; said first and second tubular coils being spliced together by overlapping each other at the respective first and second tubular coil surfaces thereof, with the respective sliced parts of the first and second coil splicing units being offset from each other and not overlapping each other; and said first tubular coil having a first tubular coil axis and said second tubular coil having a second tubular coil axis, said first and second tubular coil axes being coincident when said first and second tubular coils are spliced together.