US 11,850,033 B2
RF coil with integrated vital signs detector
Christoph Günther Leussler, Hamburg (DE); Daniel Wirtz, Hamburg (DE); and Julien Thomas Senegas, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/788,318
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Dec. 22, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/087584
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 23, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/130203, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19219362 (EP), filed on Dec. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0037196 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 5/302 (2021.01); A61B 5/08 (2006.01); G01R 33/36 (2006.01); G01R 33/567 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/055 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0816 (2013.01); A61B 5/302 (2021.01); G01R 33/3621 (2013.01); G01R 33/5673 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0214 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radio frequency (RF) transmit-receive coil for a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system, the RF transmit-receive coil comprising:
a vital signs detector for the detection of vital signs of a patient within the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system, wherein the vital signs detector is integrated in the RF transmit-receive coil, wherein a pair of electrically conducting coil elements of the RF transmit-receive coil forms the vital signs detector, wherein the vital signs detector is a capacitive vital signs detector, the capacitive vital signs detector being adapted for receiving capacitive vital signs signals wherein the vital signs detector is configured to measure the respiration and/or cardiac activity and wherein the capacitive vital signs detector is an electrocardiography (ECG) sensor being adapted for receiving ECG signals.