US 12,222,410 B2
Head coil arrangement with automatically positionable send coil unit
Ralph Kimmlingen, Zirndorf (DE); and Martin Schroeder, Moehrendorf (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/950,198.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 218 285.2 (DE), filed on Nov. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0156935 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. G01R 33/341 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01R 33/34 (2006.01)
CPC G01R 33/341 (2013.01) [A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G01R 33/34007 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A head coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance facility, the head coil arrangement comprising:
a receive coil including a first housing; and
a transmission coil including a second housing, the transmission coil configured to be
automatically positioned by being moved, in a longitudinal direction of a patient, towards the receive coil while the receive coil is stationary from the perspective of the transmission coil, and
connected to the head coil arrangement by the automatic positioning via the second housing latching into the first housing.