Patent ID: 8638100

Claim:
A surface coil configured for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, comprising: a coil housing; a magnetic resonance surface coil contained inside coil housing; said coil housing comprising an upper part and a lower part that are separable from each other and that respectively have mating surfaces that engage said upper part and said lower part with each other; said coil housing upper part comprising upper part electrical contact elements and said coil housing lower part comprising lower part electrical contact elements that face each other when said coil housing upper part is placed on said coil housing lower part; a manually operable locking element located at one of said coil housing upper part or said coil housing lower part and being configured, when manually operated, to proceed through a movement, that produces a relative movement between said coil housing upper and coil housing lower parts in order to simultaneously bring said coil housing upper part electrical contact elements into electrically conductive connection with said coil housing lower part electrical contact elements and mechanically fix said coil housing upper part and said coil housing lower part in engagement with each other.