Patent ID: 7701209

Claim:
Apparatus for magnetic resonance imaging, comprising: a magnet defining a patient-receiving space and having a static magnetic field with a field vector in a substantially horizontal direction; a patient support having a support surface for a human body, said patient support being positioned within said patient-receiving space and being pivotable about a horizontal pivot axis; and a quadrature coil antenna arrangement for receiving a signal from a patient disposed within said receiving space, said quadrature coil antenna including a first antenna having a first coil vector and a second antenna having a second coil vector, said first coil vector and said second coil vector being transverse to said static magnetic field vector, and wherein said static magnetic field vector is oriented substantially transverse to the long axis of a patient disposed within said patient-receiving space, wherein said first antenna and said second antenna comprise coil antennas configured in a dual butterfly geometry housed in a planar structure and wherein the position of the planar structure can be adjusted along a lengthwise direction of the patient support surface perpendicular to said magnetic field axis.