US 6,982,553 B2
Radio frequency coil with two parallel end conductors
Eerke Holle, Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Assigned to Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Appl. No. 10/493,688
PCT Filed Oct. 17, 2002, PCT No. PCT/IB02/04313
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 23, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/036318, PCT Pub. Date May 01, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 01204045 (EP), filed on Oct. 24, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2004/0245989 A1, Dec. 09, 2004
Int. Cl. G01V 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 324—318 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radio-frequency coil for use in a magnetic-resonance imaging apparatus, which radio-frequency coil is provided with a number of regularly spaced substantially parallel bar-shaped electric conductors that are arranged at least substantially in accordance with an imaginary cylinder, and with a radio-frequency shield arranged around said cylinder, said bar-shaped conductors being interconnected, at least at one of their ends, by means of an electric end conductor extending in a plane transverse to the bar-shaped conductors, characterized in that a further electric end conductor is arranged near and parallel to said end conductor, which further electric end conductor is electroconductively connected, near the end of each bar-shaped conductor, to the radio-frequency shield.