Patent ID: 8487622

Claim:
A magnetic resonance (MR) tomography local coil arrangement, comprising: at least one local coil configured to receive at least one MR reception signal, each MR reception signal having a reception signal frequency in the radio-frequency (RF) range; at least one amplifier that amplifies the at least one MR reception signal; a frequency converter circuit that generates at least one analog intermediate frequency signal from the at least one MR reception signal, said intermediate frequency signal having an intermediate frequency that differs from the reception signal frequency of each MR reception signal; an analog-to-digital converter that converts the analog intermediate frequency signal into a digitized intermediate frequency signal; a shielding device that shields against signals in the RF range, said shielding device surrounding at least the analog-to-digital converter; at least one frequency filter between the at least one local coil and the analog-to-digital converter, the frequency filter having a transmission range for signals with the intermediate frequency of the intermediate frequency signal; and a device that transmits the digitized intermediate frequency signal.