Patent ID: 8843192

Claim:
A breast coil arrangement for magnetic resonance applications, comprising: a placement web configured to allow a female examination subject to lie thereon with the sternum on the placement web; on each opposite side of said placement web, a pot-like breast receptacle, the respective pot-like breast receptacles being configured to receive the respective breasts of the examination subject therein; in each of said breast receptacles, an inner limiting element and an outer limiting element, said inner limiting element being located closer to said placement web than said outer limiting element; an adjustment mechanism operable to adjust and set a spacing between said inner and outer limiting elements to adapt respective sizes of the respective breast receptacles to the respective sizes of the breasts of the examination subject; in each inner limiting element and outer limiting element in each breast receptacle, multiple array coils configured to at least detect a magnetic resonance signal emitted upon excitation of breast tissue of the breast in the breast receptacle, said array coils being stationary with respect to the respective inner limiting element and outer limiting element in which said array coils are disposed; for each breast receptacle, a volume coil that surrounds that breast receptacle, each volume coil being stationary relative to said placement web; and for each breast receptacle the volume coil thereof being located centrally and orthogonally relative to the array coils of that breast receptacle and surrounding the array coils of that breast receptacle with said array coils inside said volume coil, and said volume coil and said array coils having a geometrical arrangement with respect to each other configured to decouple the array coils from the volume coil, independently of adjustment of said spacing of the breast receptacle in which the volume coil and the array coils are located.