US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Feb. 17 for "Receiving coil, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and modified dipole" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,964, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Receiving coil, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and modified dipole" was invented by Takafumi Ohishi (Yokohama, Japan) and Sadanori Tomiha (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a receiving coil includes a plurality of coil elements, wherein: at least one of the coil elements includes a loop coil and a modified dipole disposed inside the loop coil; and the modified dipole includes a main dipole configured to receive a radio-frequency "RF" signal and output a reception signal and a parasitic element that include...