US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Aug. 12 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and RF coil" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,993, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and RF coil" was invented by Satoshi Imai (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus of an embodiment includes an RF coil including a plurality of coil elements, a plurality of preamplifiers, a combiner, and a transmission line. The coil elements transmit an RF pulse to a subject placed in an imaging space, and receive a signal generated from the subject by the RF pulse. The preamplifiers are each connected to each of the coil elements via an input channel with the...