US 12,259,451 B2
Nuclear magnetic resonance coil array and decoupling method thereof, and nuclear magnetic resonance detection device
Lizhi Xiao, Beijing (CN); Sihui Luo, Beijing (CN); Guangzhi Liao, Beijing (CN); Zhengduo Wang, Beijing (CN); and Yongheng Fan, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing (CN)
Filed by CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM-BEIJING, Beijing (CN)
Filed on Feb. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/681,289.
Application 17/681,289 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2019/110305, filed on Oct. 10, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 201910817886.1 (CN), filed on Aug. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0179018 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. G01R 33/36 (2006.01); G01R 33/34 (2006.01); G01V 3/32 (2006.01)
CPC G01R 33/365 (2013.01) [G01R 33/34069 (2013.01); G01R 33/3628 (2013.01); G01V 3/32 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A nuclear magnetic resonance coil array, comprising a coil resonant unit and a decoupling network unit;
the coil resonant unit comprises multiple coil resonant circuits, and the decoupling network unit comprises multiple decoupling circuits, wherein each coil resonant circuit comprises a coil and a resonant capacitor;
the resonant capacitor in each coil resonant circuit is connected in parallel with the coil, wherein the coils in each coil resonant circuit are equally spaced on a circumference, and a decoupling circuit is provided between a positive terminal of an inductor of the coil and a negative terminal of another inductor of an adjacent coils; and
each coil is connected to an antenna switching circuit of a nuclear magnetic resonance detection device at the same time and is configured to transmit nuclear magnetic resonance signals sequentially under control of the antenna switching circuit, wherein each resonant capacitor is configured to tune a transmission frequency of a corresponding nuclear magnetic resonance signal, and the decoupling circuit is configured to eliminate mutual inductance coupling between adjacent coils;
wherein each coil resonant circuit further comprises a resistor, and
the resistor is connected in series with the coil, and is further connected in parallel with the resonant capacitor, a decoupling circuit connector is provided between the resistor and the resonant capacitor, another decoupling circuit connector is provided between the coil and the resonant capacitor, wherein the decoupling circuit connector and the another decoupling circuit connector are configured to connect with the decoupling circuit.