US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 16 for "High-frequency coil unit and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,695, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"High-frequency coil unit and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Hideta Habara (Chiba, Japan), Shinichiro Suzuki (Chiba, Japan) and Yukinobu Imamura (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an RF shield that achieves a balance between an improved irradiation efficiency and suppression of eddy current-induced heat by a gradient magnetic field coil, while avoiding complexity of conductor pattern design for suppressing an eddy current by the gradient magnetic field coil.A cylindrical RF shield, which is one of elements constituting a hig...