US 12,153,109 B2
Gradient coil assembly for a magnetic resonance imaging device and magnetic resonance imaging device
Axel vom Endt, Erlangen (DE); Jörg Riegler, Fürth (DE); and Simon Körber, Hallerndorf (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Erlangen (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/946,367.
Claims priority of application No. 21197316 (EP), filed on Sep. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0086830 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G01R 33/385 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01)
CPC G01R 33/385 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0035 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/704 (2013.01); G01R 33/4812 (2013.01); A61B 2562/182 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gradient coil assembly for a magnetic resonance imaging device, comprising:
a cylindrical carrier; and
a set of conductors forming three gradient coils, the set of conductors being included in the cylindrical carrier, and each one of the three gradient coils being associated with a respective one of three orthogonal physical gradient axes,
wherein the cylindrical carrier comprises two radial through openings disposed at different angular positions with respect to one another,
wherein a conductor from among the set of conductors passes through an area of the cylindrical carrier that is located circumferentially between the two radial through openings, and
wherein the dimensions of the two radial through openings correspond to a field of view of a medical imaging device using the two radial through openings.