Patent ID: 7282915

Claim:
A radio frequency (RF) coil assembly for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system comprising: a plurality of multi-turn coil elements for receiving RF signals during imaging wherein the multi-turn coil elements are adapted to connect to a corresponding plurality of receive channels in the MRI system operating at frequencies greater than 30 MHz, the multi-turn coil elements each include an inner loop and an outer loop and the inner loop is disposed within the outer loop and coupled to the outer loop in at least one location to form a multiple turned multiple looped structure; wherein the multi-turn coil elements and the receive channels correspond in number and the multi-turn coil elements are arranged to overlap with respective adjacent multi-turn coil elements such that the inner and outer loops of each multi-turn coil element overlap with the inner and outer loops of an adjacent multi-turn coil element and the multi-turn coil elements are arranged to correspond to a desired field of view within the MRI system.