US Patent Issued to Quality Electrodynamics on Feb. 17 for "Gapped degenerate birdcage coil" (Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,963, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Quality Electrodynamics LLC (Mayfield Village, Ohio).

"Gapped degenerate birdcage coil" was invented by Xiaoyu Yang (Indiana, Pa.), Tsinghua Zheng (Chesterland, Ohio), Derick Petrey (Mayfield Village, Ohio) and Labros Petropoulos (Chardon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system can include a gapped degenerate birdcage magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radio frequency (RF) coil. The gapped degenerate birdcage MRI RF coil is tuned to a degenerate mode and comprises a row of RF coil elements and a mechanical gap. The RF coil elements may also be referred to as...